On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 09:44:26AM -0500, Larry Hall wrote:
> >As I mentioned before, it's better to verify that the current snapshot does
> >address the problem you're seeing locally. Otherwise, if you're seeing a
> >variant or something different than the rest, your problem won't be known
> >until after 1.5.8 is released. See <http://cygwin.com/snapshots/> for the
> >latest snapshots you can download and try.
>
> Right. This is *exactly* why there are problems with zsh. Someone had
> an easily reproducible problem that showed up in 1.5.6. Rather than
> report it they apparently waited for 1.5.7 to show up, assuming that all
> of their problems would be solved.
Well, I would have reported it, but I never had a chance to upgrade to
1.5.6 in the first place (have been too busy with other things), and then
along came 1.5.7 any all hell broke loose. For anyone who wants a stable
environment, what's the harm in stepping back a version or two so that
they can get back to work? I know that when things like this break in my
*work* environment, the last thing I'd want is to play russian roulette
with a snapshot which might make things worse. If you're not a
developer, why not just wait? For the life of me, I could never quite
understand why you and Larry keep pushing the latest stuff when it hasn't
been fully tested or released. Now, that being said, I am a developer
and I do play with the latest snapshots from time to time (like in this
case), but that's in my home environment where I can tollerate things
breaking (and often break them myself for fun :).
> There are still problems with the latest snapshot that I hope to have
> fixed today. We'll see.
And, that little statement would make me even more nervious about getting
back to something stable if I had a work schedule to keep.
> cgf
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