Re: reasons to stick with stable (was: Installing TrueType Fonts)

From: Marcel Pol (mpol@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 06:15:48 EDT

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    On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 08:09:07 +1000 (EST)
    <msevior@physics.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:

    > > On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 20:03:57 +0200
    > > Hubert Figuiere <hfiguiere@teaser.fr> wrote:
    > >> BTW, as the STABLE (ie 1.0.x) branch maintainer, I recommend to jump
    > >> to 1.99.x
    > >
    > > I'm going a bit offtopic, but I'm wondering, is there any real reason to
    > > stay with stable?
    > > I was planning to have both packages in contribs for Mandrake 9.2, and
    > > the person who decides over contribs at Mandrakesoft is ok with that,
    > > but if there's no real reason, it would make life a bit easier to just
    > > have one package.
    > > I myself am happy with abiword2, but I'm not someone who pushes
    > > text-editing to the limit, so I'd like to have more opinions.
    > >
    >
    > I strongly recommend AbiWord-1.99.3 over 1.0.6.
    >
    > 1. Mandrake is in Beta, it's a good time to test out new software.
    > 2. 1.99.3 is now in fact very stable, even with all the new features.
    > 3. You no longer have to do weird things to Mandrake's font system.
    > 4. Finding stablity bugs is now the right thing to do for Mandrake.
    > 5. AbiWord-2.0 is so much better than 1.0.6 it's not funny.
    >
    > I put my mother on 1.99.2. She's very happy with it. 1.99.3 is much better
    > than 1.99.2

    Ok, thanks for the reply. I'll see what I can do.

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    Marcel Pol
    

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