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From: David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: a couple of newbie questions with gnus
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 17:33:39 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <85irnn5xyk.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <v93bera9ws.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de>

Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:

> On Sun, May 28 2006, David Kastrup wrote:
>
>> Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc> writes:
>>> Don't use yaced if they offer only outdated CVS versions.  This Gnus
>>> bug was fixed in Emacs CVS on 2005-12-09.
>>
>> "Don't use" is step #2 with free software.  Step #1 is to mail the
>> author and ask whether he intends to release something to fix this
>> soon.  
>
> You might be right, but if someone distributes a random CVS snapshot
> of Emacs which is intended for end-users, (s)he should make sure to
> update it more often (the latest version of yaced seems to be more
> than one year old).

Why should he, if judging from the feedback there are no users or they
don't have any problems?

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

  reply	other threads:[~2006-05-30 15:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-05-23 16:28 Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-23 16:57 ` David Z Maze
2006-05-24 23:05   ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-25  8:46     ` Alexander Ponomarenko
2006-05-25 15:03       ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-25 15:38         ` Malte Spiess
2006-05-25 23:06           ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-26  6:24             ` Malte Spiess
2006-05-26 15:20               ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-26 17:47                 ` Tassilo Horn
     [not found]                 ` <mailman.2324.1148665716.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-05-26 18:29                   ` Karl Kleinpaste
2006-05-26 19:28                     ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-26 20:32                       ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-27  1:16                         ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-28  9:19                           ` Tassilo Horn
     [not found]                           ` <mailman.2366.1148808000.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-05-28 15:22                             ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-28 16:16                               ` Tassilo Horn
2006-05-28 16:38                               ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-28 17:05                                 ` David Kastrup
2006-05-30 14:01                                   ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-30 15:33                                     ` David Kastrup [this message]
2006-05-31 22:35                                   ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-06-01  8:02                                     ` David Kastrup
2006-06-05 13:15                                     ` david.reitter
2006-06-15 13:55                                       ` Aking TIAN
2006-05-29  9:23                               ` Reiner Steib
     [not found]                               ` <mailman.2368.1148833009.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-05-29 18:13                                 ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-29 22:22                                   ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-31  2:18                                     ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-31  8:13                                       ` Reiner Steib
2006-05-31 22:56                                         ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-30 17:45                                   ` Tassilo Horn
     [not found]                                   ` <mailman.2439.1149011220.9609.info-gnus-english@gnu.org>
2006-05-31  3:10                                     ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-23 22:02 ` Johan Bockgård
2006-05-24 23:08   ` Martin Jørgensen
2006-05-24 11:12 ` Alexander Ponomarenko

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