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Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
- To: aoliva at redhat dot com, lucier at math dot purdue dot edu
- Subject: Re: Shared library annoyance with gcc-3_0-branch
- From: dewar at gnat dot com
- Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2001 09:51:59 -0500 (EST)
- Cc: Theodore dot Papadopoulo at sophia dot inria dot fr, gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org,jbuck at synopsys dot COM
<<I thought the Open Source (or Free Software) philosophy was "Release
early, release often" and "Get a partial solution out there, we can
perfect it later."
>>
This may be some people's philosophy, but to say that all Free Software
follows this philosophy is wrong, and in fact damaging. It implies that
all Free Software is in a constantly changing and half-baked state.
Certainly our viewpoint is diametrically opposed.
Frequent releases are a menace to real production use. Of course there
is no objection to a fluid development environment where frequent beta
versions are available, that is certainly desirable for ongoing testing
and development purposes.
But my view is that releases should be treated with the same intense
insistence on quality and perfection that applies to any software that
is intended to be used in a production environment.
Robert Dewar