Re: RE: [forum]was Future of X ? now CVS

I suppose.  Just something to designate it as "stable." it's really up
to the distro maintainers.

Alex

--- Georgina Economou <[email protected]> wrote:
> Now Alex that sounds like real spin issue.  So in that theory,
> just a tag would work also, right Alex?
> 
> Georgina 
> 
> 
> Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something
> else.
> 
> James Barrie, author of Peter Pan.
> 
> 
> 
> ***-----Original Message-----
> ***From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf
> ***Of Alex Deucher
> ***Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 1:31 PM
> ***To: [email protected]
> ***Subject: Re: [forum] Future of X ?
> ***
> ***
> ***There is the perception that until a release is "official" it's
> ***unstable no matter how stable CVS code may be.  often distros
> won't
> ***ship a cvs version of a app even if it is more stable or provides
> more
> ***functionality than any relased version simply because it not
> ***"released."
> ***
> ***
> ***--- georgina o economou <[email protected]> wrote:
> ***> 
> ***>  
> ***> -------Original Message-------
> ***>  
> ***> From: [email protected]
> ***> Date: Thursday, March 20, 2003 12:55:28 PM
> ***> To: [email protected]
> ***> Subject: Re: [forum] Future of X ?
> ***>  
> ***> On Don, 2003-03-20 at 17:29, [email protected] wrote:
> ***> > 
> ***> > 1) Many Linux distros (and even more users) are running a less
> than
> ***> current
> ***> > version of Xfree. If more developers are being looked at,
> tasking
> ***> some of
> ***> them
> ***> > to look after whatever version is the commonly installed
> version
> ***> (when it
> ***> is 
> ***> > not the latest and greatest) could be a boon, both for users
> and
> ***> the
> ***> > perception of Xfree itself.
> ***> 
> ***> Good idea, I think we could use frequent bugfix releases, in
> ***> particular
> ***> now that a bunch of more or less serious problems seem to have
> crept
> ***> into 4.3.0.
> ***> 
> ***> 
> ***> But why not just pull from the CVS?  You must know how.....
> ***> 
> ***> 
> ***> Georgina 
> 
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