On Sun, 1 Feb 2004, Casey Allen Shobe wrote: I'll add this to the 1.3 feature list; it's quite easy to add. But it's >> not suited for 1.2 - we need to get it as stable as possible and that >> means we won't be adding any more features. >(...) I just wanted to drop a >line and say that I really love this attitude that you hold towards the >development, making sure that everything is stable and done well. >Reliability of software for *nix seems to have been decreasing overall the >last few years, and everyone's concerned more about adding "that critical >feature that every other equivalent software on the planet has" which is >really "something that only 0.1% of people will ever use", rather than >making a good solid release.
Thanks; As Donald Knuth said - the secret to making safe, stable software is to finish it! The 1.2, 1.4, 1.6 and other versions of Binc IMAP are meant to be stable and reliable, and in such a state that anyone can say what it supports and what it doesn't. This means it'll be easier to write patches for it and maintain those, and writing internal docs using Binc IMAP will not have to be updated every other release to adjust to the new or changed features of the server. Keeping man pages and docs up to date is a nightmare without a release policy like the one we use here. Andy :-) -- Andreas Aardal Hanssen | http://www.andreas.hanssen.name/gpg Author of Binc IMAP | "It is better not to do something http://www.bincimap.org/ | than to do it poorly."
