Re: Why AS
Andrew Sullivan (asullivan@sprint.ca)
Wed, 11 Aug 1999 18:40:21 -0400 (EDT)
I second this. It was utterly irresponsible of RH to ship a development
version as a "working" window manager.
It still is. A friend of mine here in Hamilton and I had a lengthy e-mail
exchange because one of the 1.7 releases was included as a (default-ish
choice) GNOME wm in RH 6.0. Nice, if one is already experienced with AS,
or GNOME, or both, but rather a dirty trick to play on a new user who just
wanted to get up & running.
The development releases of AS are unbelievably stable, and it's a tribute
to the developers that these things work so well. But development
releases are still, after all, development. Things break in unusual ways.
Anyway, I'll shut up now.
A
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On 10 Aug 1999, Doug Alcorn wrote:
> Darren Eckhoff <eckhoffdl@ingalls.com> writes:
>
> >
> > The reason I am hesitant to upgrade is because IT WORKS SO WELL!
> > Now maybe I'm the exception, but I'd hate to upgrade, patch, re-patch,
> > re-re-patch, and still find out that something that worked fine before
> > now pukes when you activate the smallest of bugs.
> >
> > Are the features in 1.6.x or 1.7.x such that it warrents upgrading
> > from a problemless 1.5.x to a 95% working release?
> >
>
> I did a _lot_ of support back in the 1.5.x and early 1.6.x days. Red
> Hat took one of our pre 1.5 beta releases and renamed it to 1.5.0.
> There were a lot of features that we got working before we actually
> shipped 1.6.0. Most of the _really_ cool aestetic stuff is after the
> RH 1.5.0 rpm. The beta versions of 1.5 were released as the stable
> 1.6.x tree.
>
> If the rpm shipped with RH 5.2 works OK for you. Don't upgrade.
> However, if you see cool screen shots and say, "How do I do that?" We
> will immediatly reply, "Upgrade." Sorry. I wish RH had included one
> of our 1.6.x rpm as an update, but they didn't.
>
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