On 1 Nov 2000, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote:
> You are misunderstanding the reason/utility for Release Candidates.
>
> If you want to call the retail version RC1, please call the online version
> RC2.
>
> Again, I have to explain that Release Candidates, are Candidates to become
> gold releases, no more no less.
OK, next question: when is the gold release of 7.2 going to happen? The
packaging implied the box Walmart have is that release; posts here implied
the same of the 7.2 ISOs for download.
You've released the software, via Walmart, under the name 7.2. Releasing a
different product under the same name online is designed to spread
confusion. Your implication that neither of them is the real 7.2 suggests
you're working for SuSE :-)
> The retail version is the distrib we judge to be good enough for 7.2; the
> online version is stricly the same except that it has the latest kde2
> packages and a bunch of other minor fixes.
So don't call it 7.2. The thing Walmart has is a release, by definition:
you released it. Call the online updated version "7.2.1" or similar: it
can't be a release candidate for anything.
> > > That's an unsolvable problem, I think.
> >
> > Not entirely. The product they are selling is NOT "7.2", and shouldn't be
> > sold as such. Just print the truth...
>
> I'm sorry, it IS "7.2", difference is some small updates..
>
> AFAIK, it's printed on the boxes that it does contain a pre-version of
> final kde2.0.
Hrm... you're trying to confuse people.
Now, if you could just make sure the installer would stop crashing while
square rooting negative numbers... oh, and installing a kernel and boot
sector would be nice, too. (This is 7.1, BTW.)
James.
