* A release, perhaps?
@ 2000-04-12 0:46 David Z. Maze
2000-04-12 14:23 ` Laura Conrad
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From: David Z. Maze @ 2000-04-12 0:46 UTC (permalink / raw)
Traffic on gnu.emacs.gnus suggests that, if I upgrade to the latest
CVS version of Gnus, all of my problems (at least with
get-posting-charset) will be solved. I've worked on enough projects
to distrust this; an arbitrary snapshot of something out of CVS is as
likely to work properly as to crash Emacs horribly every time I start
it up.
In the good old days of Gnus 5.6, there would be a Gnus release every
week or two. Not every release worked, but there was at least a
semblance of quality control. It'd certainly be nice to be able to
periodically pull down a prerelease version of Gnus that's more
reputable.
Oh yeah, and Gnus 5.8.3 has been "current" for three months. Can we
get a new release fairly soonishly that fixes some of the problems?
--
David Maze dmaze@mit.edu http://www.mit.edu/~dmaze/
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-- Abra Mitchell
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* Re: A release, perhaps?
2000-04-12 0:46 A release, perhaps? David Z. Maze
@ 2000-04-12 14:23 ` Laura Conrad
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From: Laura Conrad @ 2000-04-12 14:23 UTC (permalink / raw)
>>>>> "David" == David Z Maze <dmaze@mit.edu> writes:
David> Traffic on gnu.emacs.gnus suggests that, if I upgrade to
David> the latest CVS version of Gnus, all of my problems (at
David> least with get-posting-charset) will be solved. I've
David> worked on enough projects to distrust this; an arbitrary
David> snapshot of something out of CVS is as likely to work
David> properly as to crash Emacs horribly every time I start it
David> up.
I think it's a little better than that. I did have a pretty bad
experience once since we've had the CVS, but I reported it promptly,
and the subsequent traffic suggested that if I hadn't, someone else
would have. I think enough people are getting CVS pretty often and
using it pretty heavily that if you're:
reading the ding list
have the last stable version to go back to
set mail-source-delete-incoming to nil
you should be pretty safe.
I was missing a couple of those points when I hit the bad version.
This is how I know to write the list. If there are things I did right
without thinking about it that other people have found out about the
hard way, please add them to the list now.
David> In the good old days of Gnus 5.6, there would be a Gnus
David> release every week or two. Not every release worked, but
David> there was at least a semblance of quality control. It'd
David> certainly be nice to be able to periodically pull down a
David> prerelease version of Gnus that's more reputable.
I agree with all of this, but not enough to volunteer to do the QA. I
think the days when there were regular releases were also the days
when Lars was working something like full time on gnus. What we have
in CVS is a lot of people doing small occasional fixes, which isn't
conducive to the kind of work that goes into a release with quality
control.
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