On Tuesday 21 May 2002 12:46 pm, I was honored with this communique: > On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 12:27:49PM -0400, Brian J. Murrell wrote: > > [ strong words to a lurker who thought he would step up and give me a > lesson what Cooker is for ] > > Let me take a moment to appologize to this group for making such a > reply to the list. I should have responded to Guy privately with my > comments. > > However, my comments stand as they are. I don't appologize for what I > said, just that I said it to the whole group here and just to Guy > privately. Y'all didn't need to be a part of that. > > b.
Yes, Brian, I agree that your "outburst" should have been directed privately. However, I also agree with your point that there is no practical purpose served by running "cooker" in a clean-room environment exclusively. Nothing will be learned that way. We have to give it the Road Test! Run it like the released version and see what breaks, or what it causes to break. Don't run it at work. Don't run it on the company server. Maybe you don't even want to run it on your primary machine at home (though I do - but I have a backup box just in case). But if you don't run it hard and long you haven't really tested it. I'm often troubled by poorly tested software at work; we pay tens of thousands of dollars per seat for CAD software that amounts to beta quality stuff, then they expect us to pay maintenance fees so we can get the patches to make it work better (eventually). I've asked to be put on their beta site list because I understand the need for real-world "abuse" of the unreleased code. I won't put all of my designers on the beta ware, but I'll have a copy on my machine. So far they haven't taken me up on it. At least we get the Mandrake cooker for free and get real feedback. Jay DeKing beta booster and CAD/code monkey -- This message has been approved by the Council of Lemurs
