Re: Patches missing from pre4?

[Carlos Carvalho <carlos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Zoltan Hidvegi (hzoli@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote on 29 July 1996 12:16:
 >> Is 3.0 supposed to be a really stable release?  Or is 3.0 supposed to be
 >> a work-the-kinks-out-for-3.1 release?  With all the changes that have
 >> been going on, it seems like it should have more time to settle down
 >> before release (with some kind of a change moratorium).
 >
 >I think that 3.0-pre4 is already quite stable.  I'd like to release it as a
 >stable release.  Really I do not like this big distinction between stable
 >and beta releases.  As I know other shells (bash, pdksh) do is in a much
 >more relaxed way.  I'd like to release 3.0 but I'd like to make production
 >releases much more frequently than before (more than two years passed since
 >the last `production' release).

I think that this can be done after a really good 3.0 release.
However, the initial one should be really good, exactly because of the
long time since the last one. People will say "they didn't manage to
fix this in two years?!"

Carlos