From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pasanda.cygnus.co.uk ([194.130.39.3]) by hawkwind.utcs.utoronto.ca with SMTP id <24794>; Tue, 21 Jul 1998 13:21:33 -0400 Received: (qmail 12910 invoked from network); 21 Jul 1998 16:17:09 -0000 Received: from jacuzzi.cygnus.co.uk (tgoodwin@194.130.39.22) by dns.cygnus.co.uk with QMTP; 21 Jul 1998 16:17:09 -0000 To: rc@hawkwind.utcs.toronto.edu Subject: Development snapshots now available Date: Tue, 21 Jul 1998 12:17:08 -0400 From: Tim Goodwin Message-ID: As an experiment, I have started making "snapshots" of the development version of rc available, so the brave and foolish can play with the latest code that I am working on. The aim of this experiment is to make the next beta release better, and happen sooner. If the snapshots don't seem to be helping towards this cause, I will abandon the experiment. The perceived problem that I'm trying to solve is this. It's a long time since I released rc-1.5b2. A number of problems, some of them serious, have come to light since that release and been fixed. However, I'm not ready to make another beta release yet. As you would expect, the snapshots come with no guarantees. Please only download them if you are interested in working with buggy code. Please don't use them to run life support machines, or nuclear power plants. If you report a bug in rc---snapshot, beta, or full release---you can expect to receive a reply saying "my fix is in the latest snapshot, please pick it up and see if it fixes your problem". I don't intend to announce every new snapshot to the list: if you want 'em, you know where to find 'em. The latest snapshot is here. As you would expect, subsequent snapshots will be in the same directory. If you don't have access to FTP, then you can't get snapshots. (Exception: if a snapshot fixes a bug that you reported, I'll figure out some way to get it to you.) ftp://ftp.cygnus.com/pub/tgoodwin/rc/snap/rc-1.5s19980721.tar.gz Any thoughts, comments, or suggestions are most welcome. Tim.