From: Preben Randhol <randhol@pvv.org>
Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT
Date: 2000/01/27
Date: 2000-01-27T12:38:47+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3r9f3eljh.fsf@kiuk0156.chembio.ntnu.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 86nln5$9aa2@news.cis.okstate.edu
dvdeug@x8b4e53cd.dhcp.okstate.edu (David Starner) writes:
| That's begging the point. I would argue that any program that does
| something not done before in free software would be not premature
| once it runs even the minimal stuff.
No, but as I said I think that general Open Source projects are
different from Open Source compiler projects. I need to trust the
compiler, not necessarily the CD-player software I use.
An app that I used, but don't anymore until it gets stable, is
gnomecal.
It is nice and it seems to work, but I don't trust it. The reason is
that an earlier version suddenly stopped alerting me about my
appointments. It went OK as I remembered the appointment myself, but I
cannot say that I trust the software enough to rely on it now. Though
I think the problem has been fixed in the October Gnome release.
If I write some code and the compiler complains or the program
crashes, I do not want to be unsure whether it is _me_, most likely,
that has done something wrong, or if this is a bug in the compiler.
| >One that was released prematurely _as stable_ twice, is the Gnome
| >Project http://www.gnome.org.
|
| Fair enough. But that's the exception, not the rule. I would note
| that the parts of GNOME marked stable are stable now.
It will be the rule if deadlines are put on OS projects I fear. That
is one of the advantages with none commercial products, one can choose
when to release it.
--
Preben Randhol -- [randhol@pvv.org] -- [http://www.pvv.org/~randhol/]
"Det eneste trygge stedet i verden er inne i en fortelling."
-- Athol Fugard
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Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-01-18 0:00 JAVA and ADA JGNAT Mark Burge
2000-01-18 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-19 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Ed Falis
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-25 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Alfred Hilscher
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Jean-Marc Bourguet
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-28 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-01-30 0:00 ` Stefan Skoglund
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Pascal Obry
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Florian Weimer
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Pascal F. Martin
2000-01-31 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-31 0:00 ` reason67
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Chris Morgan
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-06 0:00 ` Aidan Skinner
2000-02-07 0:00 ` Pascal Martin
2000-02-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-11 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
2000-01-26 0:00 ` David Starner
2000-01-27 0:00 ` Preben Randhol [this message]
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-26 0:00 ` Ted Dennison
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-02-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Gautier
2000-01-19 0:00 ` Preben Randhol
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