On Fri, Jan 16, 2004 at 03:28:04PM -0200, Fr�d�ric L. W. Meunier wrote: > But maybe they'd update it more often if the releases didn't > took ages. 2.8.5 will take almost 3 years :-) > > Why not accept new features and major changes for 6 or 8 months > (dev), then only bugfixes for the other 6 or 4 (pre), and do a > release ?
I would, except for the issue that some developers wait til the program is near release before submitting patches. (This is not a problem unique to lynx, of course). Pre-release also takes a lot more work. -- Thomas E. Dickey http://invisible-island.net ftp://invisible-island.net
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