Re: [as-devel] 1.8 ?
Albert Dorofeev (albert@tigr.net)
Sun, 1 Aug 1999 14:02:07 +0200
On Fri, Jul 30, 1999 at 06:54:19PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote:
>
> On Wed, 28 Jul 1999 Sasha_Vasko@osca.state.mo.us wrote:
>
> > taking on account current speed of development - it may jolly well take
> > all the way up to Christmass, before 1.8 comes out.
>
> Well, so what? The beauty of non-commercial software is the lack of ship
> dates, imposed by a marketing schedule. Not only is it better (thanks,
> folks!), but it's less hype-ey, too.
I was actually refering to this exact problem in my
mail that initiated the discussion. And, yes, I do
refer to it as a problem. I think people using the
1.6 are falling too far behind. I do not think
anybody is even capable of answering questions about
that version anymore. I would propose to fix bugs that
we know about at the moment and release a new stable.
This is not about marketing and schedule, this is
a matter of convinience. At the moment it feels more
and more like if there are two window managers in
AfterStep behaving completely different.
Tigr
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