On Thu, 29 May 2003 12:13:05 +0100
Anne Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> uttered:

> 
> Might be a piece of cake, but by definition must carry some risk.  
> Risk assessments, ya know?

well, it depends. Something like Pekwm or Sylpheed or Darkplaces,
these are people who've been coding since they were 12. So,
subsequently, their code is very stable and reliable. I never have
problems with *any* of the CVS versions that I use. I have more problems
with some contrib rpms than I do CVS. For example, mplayer crashes every
once in awhile, and don't even get me started on Gimp, crashes every
third or fourth time I use it.

And there's never any risk of damage to my system that I've ever seen or
experienced of heard of on any of the devel lists I subscribe to. I
would say the difficulty and risk of running alpha software is relative
to the coder, but is vastly overstated in general.

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