Thanks for the clarification, 9Val. Please see below for my perspective. On 7/25/05, 9Val <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Let's look more detailed - IMAP and Unicode support need a lot of > architectural changes. They are not possible to be finished in one > beta serie. So... On the one way we have 3.5.30 available for > download, on the other way we have a lot of time + possibility to > make deep changes. 3.51 is more stable than 3.5.30 and releasing it > will give us possibility to go further, we can't do anything now > without making serious changes. It is just the foundation we need to > continue work and have good enough version available for > downloading.
I understand this. But what is not clear to me is why we went from 3.5.30 to 3.5.36 and then jumped to 3.51 without ever seeming to complete the 3.5.xx series. For example, I don't understand why 3.5.30 is available for download and not 3.5.36 or 3.5.37. > Most interesting question for you is perhaps why we don't make just > bug-fix release? Quite simple - there will be a lot of changes in > core, so there is no sence in double work in fixing bugs, after that > change big parts of core and fix new bugs while previous fixes will > be dropped with old code. That makes sense to some extent. But, to my thinking, it is not entirely user-friendly. Over the extended period of time that RL will be making these big changes, many TB users will probably prefer to stick with a safe and stable version - one that has all of the components that they need and most of the components that they want. For example, I would guess that many TB users will prefer not to risk having their content distorted by an incomplete implementation of unicode (and I myself am alarmed by such a prospect). My guess is that 3.5.30 simply does not meet the requirements of many such TB users, if only because it lacks BayesIt support. -- jaywalker Windows XP Pro SP2 and The Bat! Pro (No OTFE) 3.5.36 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 3.51.10 | 'Using TBBETA' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html IMPORTANT: To register as a Beta tester, use this link first - http://www.ritlabs.com/en/partners/testers/
