My point is this -- if you don't want to run a risk, I would like to suggest that you *resist* against your update fever. Don't confuse getting updated with get more reliability, especially on *major* release. Actually, it is usually CONTRADICTORY to get updated and get a stable release.
Kow
On Monday, Dec 16, 2002, at 15:46 US/Pacific, Eric Salathe wrote:
I'm pleased to see the new update of Fink for OS X 10.2 and appreciate the effort that went into it. However, I really need to say that it is a disservice to the project to have released it prematurely. Fink provides tools critical to many people's professional work and a certain degree of confidence is required. Let's not bring the worst of Linux over.
By premature, I mean that the update has been dumped on the web page without any thought to usability. For a clean install on a new system, things are probably OK. But, presumably, the existing user base is the primary target, and for us all that has been produced is confusion.
You download the update and look at the README to be warned not to install this, but rather to refer to a specific web page (upgrade matrix). You follow the instructions there to no avail. So you dig around back at the web page to see that indeed it is a known fact that the the README, which is still being distributed, refers to misleading instructions. You mosey over to the mail list archive to see what's up and find the suggestion to do a clean install, exactly as the README warns not to do.
Worse yet, the working update for 10.2 (Fink 0.11.1/0.4.9 cvs) has been taken down for the past ten days.
Far better to wait until the product is ready before presenting it.
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Eric Salathe
Climate Impacts Group <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
University of Washington <http://www.atmos.washington.edu/~salathe>
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