Re: Gnat GPS to be released to the public?

["Marin David Condic" <mcondic.auntie.spam@acm.org>]

Didn't say that this was the way ACT works. Said it is a process that can be
followed.

A company may not choose to work this way. They may have specific objectives
for a software product so that certain new releases encompass certain new
features. However, that has its down sides. A bunch of relatively
insignificant-to-fix bugs may stand on the sidelines for a very long time
waiting for the completion of some big feature. Having a scheduled release
with a snapshot-in-time of the product provides a regular shcedule for the
customers and a process for making a release that happens regularly at known
cost (usually). Along the way, you're giving your customers whatever work
you have completed to that point in time - they don't want to wait forever
for it, do they? Especially when they are paying for it. :-)

ACT can go do whatever it is they like. Its a free country. They have to
decide what makes the most sense for them and their paying customers. Like I
said in the previous post, I don't think the reasons behind their release
schedule have to do with bug fixes or product stability so much as they have
to do with marketing and/or monetary concerns.

MDC
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Hyman Rosen <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote in message
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> Speaking as a complete outsider, I don't think that's how ACT works.
> They work to develop features required by their customers, and they
> make releases when they're done.
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