> Why not check out the latest from svn? I just built it yesterday. I think that was the point. You don't get something as important as Tracker tested efficiently if you don't release early and often.
Clinging to your code in SVN entitles you to 5% of the population willing to test it. Releasing it has psychological benefits for you and your users: - you feel like you achieved milestones instead of endlessly committing to SVN without seeing some hard, tangible achievement (I mean, having releases early and often really helps motivation) - your users trust you to make said releases instead of spending time flaming Beagle without providing them means to see for themselves. That's what I would call vapourware. I love the idea behind Tracker, but this "any day now" has been going on for months - your tarballs will most likely end up packaged for various distros. Don't you seek world domination? You won't achieve it with 0.5.4, but I know that 0.6 is a lot better and might help you with the conquering plans. - I don't want this project to look like the gaim 2.0 series that took forever to come out. And now that those folks changed the name to Pidgin, interestingly enough, they seem on a frenzy to make a small release every three weeks. This is good. > I'd like to thank the folks working on Tracker for providing such a > nice alternative to beagle. Don't misunderstand me: I love this project and I want it to grow tall and fast. This is why I'm siding with the original poster here. Providing "such a nice alternative to Beagle" currently means "providing an SVN trunk version that is really good, and outdated releases that make all the project look like crap". _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
