Fulvio Perini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>... > Mozilla0.9.6 seemed on its way to something,but things went downhill after > that. Please,tell me that I am wrong. > Thanks. To echo someone else's succinct reply, you're wrong. But that misses the point ... the expectation of linear progress is *sigh* not appreciative of how regressions come about. We don't sit around in circles testing our faith by supplicating the deities of software, manifesting our virtue by appealing to the gods for effective patches ... it doesn't work like that.
If you want a sense of what's entailed in the development cycle, why doncha hike over and crawl the material at mozilla.org ... this isn't a commerical product where you're getting intentionally incremental releases *glares in the general direction of Redmond* ... these are snapshots of a development cycle that is, politics aside, always wheels within wheels. This project is _paradigmatic_ of "herding cats", and in a good number of cases _new breeds_ of cats (who'd uh thunk that XUL rhymes with "zool"?!) Which isn't to intimate that it's a paradigm of good process, just that's it's an awesome project and IMHO a really whack vision. Grunting from effort is a very nice alternative to groaning with disatisfaction. (Besides which, I doubt that there's another opportunity for Joe Public to crawl around on the inside watching how this stuff is actually produced!) totally freakin' amazing ... and OpenSource to boot! hfx_ben
