From owner-freebsd-ports Wed May 3 15:23:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from viper.lovett.com (hub.lovett.com [216.60.121.161]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE76A37B922 for ; Wed, 3 May 2000 15:23:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ade@lovett.com) Received: from ade by viper.lovett.com with local (Exim 3.13 #1) id 12n7Xs-000Pa2-00; Wed, 03 May 2000 17:23:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 3 May 2000 17:23:04 -0500 From: Ade Lovett To: "Chris D. Faulhaber" Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Problems with the pan newsreader port Message-ID: <20000503172304.T94890@supernews.com> References: <20000503150107.B495@norn.ca.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from jedgar@fxp.org on Wed, May 03, 2000 at 06:11:36PM -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, May 03, 2000 at 06:11:36PM -0400, Chris D. Faulhaber wrote: > Well, I suppose I should pipe in here. I've been putting off updating to > the 0.8.0-betas since there are, well, beta. However, if they are > improving, I'll look into updating the port. Apart from a few notable cases, with GNOME apps, it seems to be 'update early, update often' :) Sadly, the words 'alpha', 'beta', '0.x', 'unstable' etc.. have been severly abused and overloaded over the years, so it's usually a pretty tough judgement call. -aDe [waiting to see how backwards compatible GNOME 1.2 will be with 1.0 :)] -- Ade Lovett, Austin, TX. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message