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  • From: "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergey AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] How to handle multi-version spells
  • Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 07:26:42 +0400

I agree with Jeremy. More often than not "stable" means "stale." That's how open source seems to work, everyone likes the new stuff :-).

Arwed von Merkatz wrote:


I'm not talking about a CVS version, I'm talking about a released devel
version, such as mutt 1.5.9. It is *more* compatible with other stuff than
the "stable" 1.4.x branch because 1.4.x is so old (1.4.x tries to require
older auto tools than we even ship right now, but our build fudges around
calling them the way that would error out). There's several distros that
only ship mutt 1.5.x and left 1.4.x in the dirt some time ago. Yes, this
is the mutt dev's fault for taking so long to get around to cutting 1.6,
but this is exactly what I mean by "arbitrary version schemes".


I still don't see why the devel version should be the default. I've been
using mutt 1.4 for ages and don't have any problems with it.
A user who wants to use 1.5 can still choose it.





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