Re: [Cooker] Sad state of pre-releasing to consumers

[Ben Reser]

On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 05:54:14PM +0100, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> > In the future maybe a different versioning system would help alleviate this
> > also. 7.00 might be on the shelf at Wal-Mart while 7.01 on ftp. At least
> > something on the box so no one can claim they were lied to.
> 
> No because in that case WalMart could not have the 7.01 and customers
> would ask for it..

I have to agree a different version number would have been appropriate here.
Surely you realized KDE2 was going to come out.  And I'm sure you also realized
that the 7.2 final would be upgradeable via MandrakeUpdate.  It would have been
easy to put on the box, "Upgradeable to 7.2.1".  Then all you would have had to
do was put a small card in the box saying that when 7.2.1 was available you
would be able to use MandrakeUpdate to get it.

Problem solved, everyone happy, less confusion.

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