On Thu, 4 May 2000, Mark Charlebois wrote:
> On Thu, 04 May 2000, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
>
> > >
> > > one thing that i am still unsure of is whether or not i should pass
> > > blackbox onto another person for development... it would be a hard thing to
> > > do... especially since blackbox is about to have it's 3rd birthday (can
> > > anyone tell me when this is? :))
> > >
> >
> > just speaking for myself, but I am happy with blackbox as she stands. Let it
> > sit, take some bug patches. If people want more, you will get the patches.
>
> I'd like to see the 0.60 series be released as stable if it is going to
sit "as she stands". Patches are fine but if the code is perpetually
called alpha (but is actually stable) many potential users will will miss
out on the latest blackbox.
And on that note, it IS quite stable. I am continually confused as to why
Brad insists on labelling 0.60 as alpha. :) It has certainly been more
stable (I admit, in my limited experience) than, say, windowmaker and KDE.
--
Dieter Pearcey
"There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched
without emotion. Even with the utterly lost, to whom life and death are
equally jests, there are matters of which no jest can be made."
-- Edgar Allan Poe, "The Masque of the Red Death"
