On Wednesday 14 November 2001 10:50 pm, you wrote: > I am not sure cooker should use alpha versions...
Cooker used 2.2 alpha, and was nice to get an early look at what the KDE folks were up to. > > I am afraid many people would quit trying making anything usable out of > it. It is not fun at all testing something that is totally broken. For > now, Cooker maintainers did an awesome job at keeping it attractive by > keeping base packages in beta stage. > > I think this strategy brings more testers and an amazing variation of > platforms. Beta versions often answer a need, alpha often break > everything. True, but somebody's got to pound on it to help them debug it. I don't mind using code that's alpha, provided it at least partially works, and that the developers are addressing problems and fixing them rapidly. It's part of the excitement for me, and one of the reasons I obsessively play with cooker! Vinny > > =-= > kk1
