At 09:14 AM 04/01/01 -0800, "Robert Rainwater" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
><snip>
>I would be hesitant to post a link on the site, since most developers and
>testers are subscribed to this list. Putting a link on the site would cause
>people to download it and use it as final code.
>
>Robert Rainwater
But what choice is there? The current "release" is nearly two months old.
We know there have been a tremendous number of bug fixes, enhancements, and
style changes since then. People really only have a choice of using a very
old and substantially obsolete "release," or the current code.
This is not meant as a criticism - obviously, this is free code, people are
doing the best they can, following their own priorities, etc. But the fact
remains that releases aren't happening, and are very difficult to arrange
in this style of development.
Unless the developers institute such practices as code freezes,
bug-fix-only periods, extensive testing, etc., there is never likely to be
a "stable" version for use as a new release. This type of development will
always have segments under active development (until the code becomes
obsolete and development stops).
Unless you are planning some kind of active process to bring about a stable
code package that can be a new release, the new code is really all that is
available.
--
Peter Curran Software Developer Casebank Technologies Inc.
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