José Matos wrote: > Please Pavel, > let us calm down. :-) sorry if my mail sounded rude, i didn't intend that.
> Uwe has made an honest effort to follow the rules, and although we have not > officially released an alpha version we have done it in the sense that we (I) > have tagged the release in svn. don't understand then what is the sign of alpha being released ? ftp location ? > Alpha releases are not usually advertised in the users lists and people in > the devel certainly know how to compile from svn. i stand corrected then. anyway its strange to have announcement of alternative win installer of alpha1 without any tarball or offic installer being announced too. > So an alpha version for windows clearly stating the alpha status was not > adverse to the development. in the thread after alpha1 discussing this, more people felt the same way as me and you didn't give any clear statement. > PS: Unless someone is opposed, I intend that the next release be the first > beta. +1 pavel