Date: Mon, 7 Aug 2000 19:43:45 +0600 (LKT)
From: Kalum Somaratna aka Grendel <kalum AT lintux DOT cx>
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To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Eli Zaretskii spoke the following immortal words,

> 
> On Mon, 7 Aug 2000, Damian Yerrick wrote:
> 
> > >Although DJ never puts Beta versions in the zip-picker, I think it would
> > >be appropriate if he made RHIDE a exception, as the new RHIDE betas, are
> > >a great improvement over the previous ones, and contribute to far less
> > >bugs too.
> > 
> > That would be a good idea for all3932 (latest Allegro) also, as it is
> > essentially 4.0.  It has been stable for months.
> 
> Then why isn't it on SimTel?
> 
> It is up to the package maintainer to decide when is the specific version 
> ready for a public release.  If the latest Allegro is stable enough to 
> recommend it for production work, it should be uploaded.

Yes Eli certainly has a point here, I suppose Shawn has his reasons for
still keeping it in the WIP stage, but IMHO it is indeed stable, an the
WIP tag does seem to do it considerable injustice, but then if you take a
package like WINE it is capable of doing the most amazing things yet it
still is eternally in the Alpha stage...

Peace to all,
Grendel

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