From fnaumann@mail.cs.uni-magdeburg.de Fri Jul 23 16:03:45 2004 Date: Fri, 23 Jul 2004 15:59:08 +0200 (CEST) From: Anders Eriksson X-X-Sender: ae@gem.atari.org To: FreeMiNT Mailinglist Subject: Re: [MiNT] freemint 1.16.0b stability In-Reply-To: <002301c470ba$baa01da0$c20963d9@blaszak> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new-20030616-p10 (Debian) at fishpool.fi Delivered-To: mint@fishpool.com Delivered-To: mint@lists.fishpool.fi X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi Errors-to: mint-bounce@lists.fishpool.fi X-original-sender: ae@dhs.nu Precedence: bulk List-help: List-unsubscribe: List-ID: X-List-ID: X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel X-Milter: ClamAV 0.70/0.70kjel X-Milter: milter-regex 1.5jel Hello Draco! On Fri, 23 Jul 2004, Konrad Kokoszkiewicz wrote: > > etc etc... I understand what you mean, but don't forget one thing - in > > compare to some application (qed, for example), testing the OS itself > > is a quite different. > > Maybe, but it is necessary anyways. And when you don't test, you get unfixed > bugs. That's the reality. I think we have different views of 'beta'-software. For me, the beta is released to have the bugs detected so they are gone for the final release. And 1.16.0 beta is what was released now, and I really can't see why you are upset with bug-reports from a beta release, isn't that perfectly normal ? -- Anders Eriksson ae@dhs.nu http://www.dhs.nu/ ae@atari.org http://www.atari.org/