From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 3163 invoked from network); 30 Nov 1999 15:26:49 -0000 Received: from sunsite.auc.dk (130.225.51.30) by ns1.primenet.com.au with SMTP; 30 Nov 1999 15:26:49 -0000 Received: (qmail 21039 invoked by alias); 30 Nov 1999 15:26:37 -0000 Mailing-List: contact zsh-workers-help@sunsite.auc.dk; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk X-No-Archive: yes X-Seq: 8822 Received: (qmail 21031 invoked from network); 30 Nov 1999 15:26:36 -0000 Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 10:25:49 -0500 From: Clint Adams To: Adam Spiers Cc: zsh-workers@sunsite.auc.dk Subject: Re: zsh-announce moderators still alive? Message-ID: <19991130102549.A28014@dman.com> References: <19991130141425.A28583@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> <19991130151010.B28928@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii User-Agent: Mutt/1.0i In-Reply-To: <19991130151010.B28928@thelonious.new.ox.ac.uk>; from adam@spiers.net on Tue, Nov 30, 1999 at 03:10:10PM +0000 > they like having all the latest bells and whistles. Many software > projects spring to my mind which make daily snapshot tarballs (and > even binary builds) available for this reason. I also already know > several people that make use of these snapshots. For "normal" users, snapshots become less useful when there are frequent releases ("release early, release often"). For all the bleeding edge fans there are those that want stability. Bart isn't maintaining 3.0 to stroke his ego; there are plenty of people that want protection from the craziness of the development tree. I like the fact that I can get a snapshot of Tanaka's CVS repository anytime I want and not have to apply patches by hand, but for the casual zsh user, only bugfixes are important. Witness the confusion of someone running a modularized 3.1.6-pws-10 who is hitting TAB and not getting any results because no completion modules are loaded.