RE: Why all of the upgrades

2010-06-03 Thread Bill MacAllister
from further attacks. Thanks anyway. Joelle From: Joelle Crepsac [mailto:jcrep...@stanford.edu] Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:47 PM To: Subject: Why all of the upgrades Why is this program constantly being upgraded? I truly regret sharing it because it's CONSTANTLY revision versions

Re: Why all of the upgrades

2010-06-03 Thread Brian Morrison
On Wed, 2 Jun 2010 13:31:17 -0700 (PDT) Joelle Crepsac jcrep...@stanford.edu wrote: I don't consider that SO MANY revisions active development... You don't? I consider it very active and indeed exactly what's needed in software that has to essentially be reverse engineered to work with

Why all of the upgrades

2010-06-02 Thread Joelle Crepsac
Why is this program constantly being upgraded? I truly regret sharing it because it's CONSTANTLY revision versions. Does anyone have any ideas when it will remain stable for 6 months or more? It's truly a hassle, and I'm considering using something more stable. Any ideas? Thanks, JC

Re: Why all of the upgrades

2010-06-02 Thread Richard Laager
On Wed, 2010-06-02 at 12:46 -0700, Joelle Crepsac wrote: Why is this program constantly being upgraded? Read the changelog. Does anyone have any ideas when it will remain stable for 6 months or more? What does remain stable mean here? It’s truly a hassle, and I’m considering using

Re: Why all of the upgrades

2010-06-02 Thread Bill MacAllister
--On Wednesday, June 02, 2010 12:46:49 PM -0700 Joelle Crepsac jcrep...@stanford.edu wrote: Why is this program constantly being upgraded? If you really wanted an answer to this seems like you should take a look at the changelog. There is a link off of the pidgin home page to the latest

RE: Why all of the upgrades

2010-06-02 Thread Joelle Crepsac
To: Subject: Why all of the upgrades Why is this program constantly being upgraded? I truly regret sharing it because it's CONSTANTLY revision versions. Does anyone have any ideas when it will remain stable for 6 months or more? It's truly a hassle, and I'm considering using something more stable

Re: Why all of the upgrades

2010-06-02 Thread Ethan Blanton
Joelle Crepsac spake unto us the following wisdom: I've suggested that 150 people (that do not have administrative privileges) use this application; an application that has had something close to 8 version changes in a few months. If you're deploying Pidgin to a large group, you should

Re: Why all of the upgrades

2010-06-02 Thread Evan Platt
On 06/02/2010 01:46 PM, Ethan Blanton wrote: The bottom line is that Pidgin will quite possibly *never* go six months or more without release. You should be VERY suspicious of any network client which claims it will be -- if nothing else, that means that the authors of the client are