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Article #4982Re: When is C News being released?
From: Dave Glowacki
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 19:40
Date: Thu, 11 May 1989 19:40
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In article <918@twwells.uucp> bill@twwells.UUCP (T. William Wells) writes: >I've become really disgusted with the amount of patching that goes >into some of the posted software. I would much rather wait for a >tested release than be the unintentional beta tester that many people >have become. > >E.g., I would have brought up elm to replace mailx but there was >patch 1, patch 2, ..., patch 7! All in the space of a few weeks. It >might have been the case that elm would have worked fine for me but >this was *not* encouraging! > >Please folks, if you have to release something that you don't *know* >is reasonably tested, note it as a beta. And tell us what *has* been >tested. Yeah! I mean, I pay good money for all this softw.... Ummm...Never mind ;-) -- Dave Glowacki dglo@ads.com Advanced Decision Systems
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!ncar!ames!zodiac!deimos!dglo From: dglo@deimos.ADS.COM (Dave Glowacki) Newsgroups: comp.sources.d Subject: Re: When is C News being released? Message-ID: <7866@zodiac.UUCP> Date: 11 May 89 19:40:18 GMT References: <24133@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <1989May9.191034.3424@utzoo.uucp> <918@twwells.uucp> Sender: news@zodiac.UUCP Reply-To: dglo@ads.com (Dave Glowacki) Organization: Advanced Decision Systems, Mt. View, CA (415) 960-7300 Lines: 22