Re: Unstable files/documentation & package formats

> Improving the documentation cannot hurt. New sections are certainly okay. 
> Classifying things as alpha,beta,stable etc. might require reclassifying some 
> of the existing packages (which I would not call stable for lack of active support.)  

Perhaps you misunderstood or I was not clear enough, I was referring to packages
in general and not to the packages as included internally with Lush.

So I meant, for one, that it might be good to have betas of documentation (since I 
am doing some work on that) available for download without going through CVS. 
Then users & developers can give feedback on the quality/progress made before 
changes go into CVS proper. I just see it as a possible convenience to get it out 
and iterate through some changes before any commits take place.

> The lush development is very incremental. A new release would be right around 
> now because we have a reasonable support for MacOSX.  We could make releases 
> much more often, but it is difficult to choose any particular point... 

I understand your point. Basically I was just hoping to get something in the documentation 
revised before a new release. I have completed revision of the introduction and I could 
upload that to sourceforge for everyone and then make some improvements/fixes.
 
> Other kind of packages could be useful of course. I always recommend using lush 
> cvs, directly compiled from the source directory. Binary packages are a bit  
> alien to that concept. But this is what people expect nowadays.  

So what are you saying exactly? Yes, I see you favor going with CVS, but would it
be okay to Lush available in tar.bz2/zip/RPM/etc. right on sourceforge?

There is no set limit on sourceforge to the files you can have and it is possible
to delete files and hide releases if they are not wanted.

Having a few package formats available could make Lush more accessible, no?

Raymond


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