On Sun, Jun 15, 2003 at 08:14:57AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jun 2003 09:33:02 +0200, Sven Luther <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2003 at 04:54:23PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> On Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:49:15 +0200, Sven Luther > >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > >> > >> > On Thu, Jun 12, 2003 at 11:48:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > >> >> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003 18:12:03 +0200, Sven Luther > >> >> > >> >> > So it should be ok if i upload the package to unstable, even > >> >> > if the package crashes often, and thus, since it is an XML > >> >> > editor, the user can loose part of its work ? > >> >> > >> >> > >> >> *Sigh*. Rules of thumb are no subst=itute for common sense or > >> >> thinking. > >> >> > >> >> Did I not say data loss is reason enough for experimental? > >> >> > >> >> > At least i should add a warning in the long description then > >> >> > or something such ? > >> >> > >> >> If it causes data loss, you should use experimental. > >> > >> > Well, the difference is between data loss on the disk and loss of > >> > currently editing stuff. > >> > >> Is it your contention that it is useful for us to make that > >> distinction? Why? > > > Because if it crashes before you have had time to enter any > > meaningfull data, as it was doing, it is less grave as when it > > crashed after hours of work. Also, i think you can distinguish > > between an app causing random data loss of other data and an app > > causing loss of his own data. > > I beg to differ. In geberal, after I spend 12 hours > painstakingly entering data, and it is all lost, I am more likely to > be annoyed than if it corrupted some data on the disk and I had to > just restore from the nightly backup.
Ah, but the current problem would happen in the first minute, always, so unless you type/click/whatever exceptionnaly fast, you don't loose much. 0.5.3 closed this problem though, will test the now release 0.5.4 also. I am of two minds about this, on one side, conglomerate is now in experimental, but maybe it could also go into unstable, now that it does not crash anymore. Friendly, Sven Luther