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Date:      Tue, 21 Mar 2000 17:01:18 +0000
From:      David Murphy <drjolt+freebsd-stable@redbrick.dcu.ie>
To:        "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>
Cc:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Voxware is toast. Get used to it. (Re: Suggestions for improving newpcm performance?)
Message-ID:  <20000321170118.M5367@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie>
In-Reply-To: <13387.953657029@zippy.cdrom.com>; from jkh@zippy.cdrom.com on Tue, Mar 21, 2000 at 08:43:49AM -0800
References:  <20000321121048.E49550@enigma.redbrick.dcu.ie> <13387.953657029@zippy.cdrom.com>

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Quoting <13387.953657029@zippy.cdrom.com>
by "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>:

> I challenge you to find anything about 4.0 which is inherently less
> stable or usable than, say, 3.4. 

Well, to be perfectly honest, I don't know what the 2.X->3.X upgrade
procedure was like, but upgrading from 3.4 to 4.0 is fiddly, and it
doesn't help that the instructions are counterintuitively at the
bottom of /usr/src/UPDATING which, to the untrained eye, looks like a
changelog, and lusers like me don't read changelogs to see if someone
happened to put vital instructions at the bottom of it.

> We've come a long way and probably need to stop scaring people off
> from our releases.  We didn't do a 30 day code freeze this time for
> nothing you know!

Well, don't take this personally (anyone), but I wish you (plural)
would make up your (plural) minds. If it's a not-ready-for-real-use
release, it'd be nice if people didn't start flaming other people
(Who, I might add, read the release notes carefully, looking for
warnings) for trying to use it for real work with "Fool! Don't you
know that 4.0 means it's not ready for real use?!". 

-- 
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"That's a malicious rumour. I'll run over anyone who repeats it."
Stephen Hawking - [http://www.smh.com.au/news/0001/07/features/features1.html]
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