From: Nemeth Ervin <airwin@inf.bme.hu>
To: "Bart Schaefer" <schaefer@candle.brasslantern.com>
Cc: zsh-users@sunsite.auc.dk
Subject: Re: Stable?
Date: 30 May 2000 08:50:57 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <gmvg0r0y1im.fsf@kempelen.iit.bme.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: "Bart Schaefer"'s message of "Mon, 29 May 2000 18:01:04 +0000"
>>>>> Bart Schaefer writes:
> On May 29, 10:21am, James Kirkpatrick wrote:
> } Subject: Re: Stable?
> }
> } OK, I'll play "straight man" in this exchange.
> }
> } If it's changing so fast, how can it be called stable :-)
> It doesn't crash or behave in a destructive manner, i.e., a particular
> installation can be stable if you're not trying to follow every little
> change via the CVS server on sourceforge.net.
> } Perhaps one needs to distinguish between "stable" and
> } "production-quality". If the changes are bug fixes then I'd not call it
> } production-ready. If the changes are additional new features, or the bugs
> } are extremely obscure, then I might.
> Most of the bugs are obscure. Occasionally one becomes less obscure in
> the course of attempting to fix the obscure ones. But new features are
> still being added, too, which means still more obscure bugs.
So far I've learned that zsh-3.1 is very stable, contains a dosen of new
features and deveoped since a couple of years.
May I suggest closing the 3.0 series declaring it "obsolote" -- no more
bugfixes in it, and "freezing" the 3.1 series to a distibutable package --
probably with versioning 3.2.*.
It would have the advantage that the "development" and "stable" series would
have a smaller Eucledian distance, facilitating the patching of both versions.
I'm only a humble user so I haven't got any word here. It's up to you, dear
developers.
Thank you for listening.
--
Ervin
"Natura unum os et duas aures nobis dedit, quasi admoneret, ut multa
audiremus et pauca diceremus."
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-30 6:51 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-29 8:15 Stable? Nemeth Ervin
2000-05-29 8:19 ` Stable? jarausch
2000-05-29 8:51 ` Stable? Nemeth Ervin
2000-05-29 8:58 ` Stable? Bart Schaefer
2000-05-29 16:21 ` Stable? James Kirkpatrick
2000-05-29 18:01 ` Stable? Bart Schaefer
2000-05-30 6:50 ` Nemeth Ervin [this message]
2000-05-30 7:24 ` Stable? Bart Schaefer
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