2010/6/29 Mike Meyer <[email protected]>: > On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 20:54:28 +0200 > Laurent PETIT <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ... at least it's my opinion : we should stop consider newbies are as >> excited as us by the idea of working with SNAPSHOT dependencies which >> work day A, break day B. >> >> So .... I think we should have no SNAPSHOT dependencies in the Getting >> Starting docs, or transitive SNAPSHOT dependencies. > > Doesn't this just boil down to "newbies shouldn't run unreleased > software"? Which is considered simple common sense in most > communities.
Yes. After having digged again through the "Getting started" wiki page, where I thought I would find plenty of material to make my point clear, I have to admit that my feeling was wrong. Most if not all the "how to start with ..." seem to use correctly "tagged" releases of everything. So maybe you're right, and we should be more "prudent" with newbies, first checking that they are following official instruction pages pointing to officially released software, so that we're not stuck in an infinite loop newbie -> wanting bleeding edge -> posting to ml -> people try to help -> newbie rants after having installed bleeding edge in no least than 2 days -> more newbies wanting bleeding edge -> ... Now ... why do newbies want bleeding edge ? There certainly is a reason for that. Honestly, if I were a newbie, currently on June 2010, 29th, I certainly would like the bleeding edge, after having "heard" so much goodness about protocols, etc. (which might have led me to clojure !), -- Laurent -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
