From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,2e91a32061bde112 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Preben Randhol Subject: Re: JAVA and ADA JGNAT Date: 2000/01/27 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 578286295 References: <862sv5$sug$1@pirates.Armstrong.EDU> <862t3o$9aa1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86k8r6$alp$1@nnrp1.deja.com> <86kpbu$aik1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86n2lf$a2g1@news.cis.okstate.edu> <86nln5$9aa2@news.cis.okstate.edu> X-Complaints-To: usenet@itea.ntnu.no X-Trace: kopp.stud.ntnu.no 948976727 19994 129.241.83.82 (27 Jan 2000 12:38:47 GMT) Organization: ProgramVareVerkstedet NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Jan 2000 12:38:47 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 2000-01-27T12:38:47+00:00 List-Id: 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