On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:46:48PM +0100, John Latham wrote:
> > From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
> > Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:01:14 +0200
>
> > On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 07:13:18PM +0100, John Latham wrote:
> > > > Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:17:29 +0200
> > > > From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm_at_fvwm.org>
> > >
> > > > > I > was building a Red Hat ready fvwm2.5.2 RPM
> > > >
> > > > > which we are probably going to use here at Manchester CS.
> > > >
> > > > Don't do that! It's not even alpha quality.
>
> ...
>
> > Don't let perceived stability fool you. You just haven't
> > triggered the buggy or crashing parts. That's fine for you as an
> > individual, but don't underestimate the creativity of 700 users.
> > Oh, and bugs that were introduced and fixed in the development
> > versions *don't* show up in the NEWS, only in the ChangeLog.
>
> ...
>
> > Just to make this clear: No 2.5.x release was 'alpha' quality
> > yet. Being 'alpha' means that it is good enough to consider
> > heading for a stable release after extensive tests have been done.
> > That's why it's called a 'development release' in the NEWS.
>
> Ah. On the FVWM home page it says:
>
> Latest Alpha Release: 2.5.3
>
> which I must admit has coloured my thinking a bit.
Doh. When the web site is updated the next time it will read
"very unstable" instead of "alpha".
> Thank you for the very sobering warning. *If* we go with 2.5 it will be
> monitored very carefully and we will fall straight back to 2.4.x if we have
> problems.
>
> But I suspect it is easy for you to underestimate the dire pain already caused
> by the Java/FVWM mismatches!!!! (It's also easy to overestimate our users'
> creativity -- more to the pity!!) I'll weigh up the 2.4 Java weapons with the
> 2.5 ones. I've just noticed that the one I thought might be the most helpful,
> ResizeHintOverride actually is already there in 2.4 -- for some reason I
> thought it was only in 2.5. (I am hoping this will help combat the quite
> common but appalling 1x1, modal, nonresizable dialog ``feature''!!!!)
Bye
Dominik ^_^ ^_^
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