i dunno understand...

[Roberto Raggi]

Hi Dan,

On Fri, 27 Dec 2002, Dan Marinescu wrote:

> hi there,
> 
> i dunno understand why even bother to say "hey, download source is 
> here..." when in fact, that is a super unstable, not even fully 
> compileable source snapshot... the svn thing (which you called by "very 
> experimental") sucks, it does not even compile! i do not understand why 
> you even allowed the author to post it in the main tree... you can do 
> whatever you want with the cvs unstable branches, but when you say "this 
> is the source for redhat 8.0" (for example), the source should compile, 
> link, etc...
> 
> you can do whatever you want, but you really shut your own legs... (i 
> mean, this teribilistic stupiditiy is hurting ya and you prestige, 
> affecting the open source software image!) what's the big deal to try 
> compiling the sources, on the operating systems you claim to be 
> compatible with, BEFORE posting them?!?

usually alpha release are target for people and developer that want to
improve the project... please report problems, crashs, new features and
annoying bugs to this mailing list or wait for a stable release

ciao robe