Re: Spotted on Freshmeat: Squirrel Shell

Hi Ori!

Please separate paragraphs with an empty line, and avoid top-posting.

On Sunday 12 October 2008, Ori Idan wrote:
> Didn't you forget the standard open source sentence "Release early release
> often"?

"Release early, release often" does not mean "Release crap" or don't do 
design, or do the minimal amount of thinking and UI design. Furthermore, the 
version of squirrelsh that I tested was 1.2.2. Considering that open-source 
programs should start with 0.2.x, etc. it means that it is already considered 
stable and ready-for-prime-time. But it isn't ready-for-prime-time.

> It is probably a very early release and you should have wrote this to the
> developers (without your last paragraph about them not understanding
> software quality.

It's not a very early release. And even in early releases, I expect to have 
documentation in a usable format, or a usable syntax or realine-integration.

> Also regarding the English errors in the manual, you should have pointed
> them to the errors or maybe fixing them and sending the fixed manual.

Why should I, given that squirrelsh is as unusable as it is? I've got better 
objectives to spend my time on. Meanwhile, I'm happy with bash, and there's 
also zsh, or possibly fish. I don't need to work on squirrelsh, which has 
made such a bad impression on me.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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