On 2001-10-28 04:48:52 -0500, Russell Hoover wrote:
>Would someone from the mutt developer community mind giving a
>heads-up as to the philosophy or current thinking about this
>situation?
1.3.23 is "pretty stable" now - which is why 1.3-branch
announcements come on mutt-users, and why the 1.3 tar balls are not
in the devel/ subdirectory. In fact, I believe that at least some
areas of the code are considerably more bug-free than any 1.2
version (or even the 1.2 CVS, which has indeed some bugs fixed
against 1.2.5, but hasn't been touched for quite some time).
In fact, you could legitimately say that there is currently no true
unstable branch - and that's basically because releasing a beta
version (and, even more so) releasing a new stable version will
inevitably uncover those bugs which don't come up with the usage
patterns of developers (or the bold hearts doing beta tests).
On the other hand, spending time on fixing problems in 1.2 which
have been solved in 1.3 (possibly during major rewrites) would just
be a waste of time, IMHO.
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