Re: Warning on unreleased versions.

2016-02-27 Thread John Darrington
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 02:48:54PM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote: I think that an appropriately worded notice can make all of this clear. For example: This is a development version of PSPP. Please be alert to the likely possibility that it contain more bugs t

Re: PSPP should remove the scary, misleading message about "UNRELEASED TEST SOFTWARE! NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!"

2016-02-27 Thread Alan Mead
On 2/27/2016 4:51 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 08:07:27AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: >> On 2/24/2016 9:43 AM, John Darrington wrote: >>> Unfortunately I disagree :( >> So I'm confused. Is this my answer? I can go fuck off? > I am disturbed by the idea that we'd tell anyone to fuck

Re: PSPP should remove the scary, misleading message about "UNRELEASED TEST SOFTWARE! NOT FOR PRODUCTION USE!"

2016-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Thu, Feb 25, 2016 at 08:07:27AM -0600, Alan Mead wrote: > On 2/24/2016 9:43 AM, John Darrington wrote: > > Unfortunately I disagree :( > > So I'm confused. Is this my answer? I can go fuck off? I am disturbed by the idea that we'd tell anyone to fuck off, especially someone like you who has

Re: Warning on unreleased versions.

2016-02-27 Thread Ben Pfaff
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 07:03:51PM +0100, John Darrington wrote: > Alan takes the view that users should not be discouraged to try the latest > git snapshots, > whereas the decision to add this notice to those snapshots was taken in order > to ensure > that users are fully aware of what they are