On Mon, Sep 02, 2002 at 04:46:48PM +0100, John Latham wrote: > > 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.
Doh. When the web site is updated the next time it will read "very unstable" instead of "alpha". > 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''!!!!) Bye Dominik ^_^ ^_^ -- Dominik Vogt, mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], phone: 0721/91374-382 Schlund + Partner AG, Erbprinzenstr. 4-12, D-76133 Karlsruhe -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL: http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]