> From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm@fvwm.org>
> Date: Mon, 2 Sep 2002 11:01:14 +0200
> On Thu, Aug 29, 2002 at 07:13:18PM +0100, John Latham wrote:
> > > Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2002 10:17:29 +0200
> > > From: Dominik Vogt <fvwm@fvwm.org>
> >
> > > > I > was building a Red Hat ready fvwm2.5.2 RPM
> > >
> > > > which we are probably going to use here at Manchester CS.
> > >
> > > Don't do that! It's not even alpha quality.
...
> Don't let perceived stability fool you. You just haven't
> triggered the buggy or crashing parts. That's fine for you as an
> individual, but don't underestimate the creativity of 700 users.
> Oh, and bugs that were introduced and fixed in the development
> versions *don't* show up in the NEWS, only in the ChangeLog.
...
> Just to make this clear: No 2.5.x release was 'alpha' quality
> yet. Being 'alpha' means that it is good enough to consider
> heading for a stable release after extensive tests have been done.
> That's why it's called a 'development release' in the NEWS.
Ah. On the FVWM home page it says:
Latest Alpha Release: 2.5.3
which I must admit has coloured my thinking a bit.
Thank you for the very sobering warning. *If* we go with 2.5 it will be
monitored very carefully and we will fall straight back to 2.4.x if we have
problems.
But I suspect it is easy for you to underestimate the dire pain already caused
by the Java/FVWM mismatches!!!! (It's also easy to overestimate our users'
creativity -- more to the pity!!) I'll weigh up the 2.4 Java weapons with the
2.5 ones. I've just noticed that the one I thought might be the most helpful,
ResizeHintOverride actually is already there in 2.4 -- for some reason I
thought it was only in 2.5. (I am hoping this will help combat the quite
common but appalling 1x1, modal, nonresizable dialog ``feature''!!!!)
> > Of course, I'll have RPMS for 2.4.[6-9] up my sleeve in case the worst
> > should
> > happen.
>
> Bye
>
> Dominik ^_^ ^_^
Best wishes, John Latham
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