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Re: NQC beta test release policy
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lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc
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Sat, 8 Jan 2000 23:05:17 GMT
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On Saturday, January 8, 2000 5:52 AM, dbaum@spambgoneenteract.com (Dave
Baum) wrote:
> The Free Software model can be used to acheive different • goals. In the
> case of NQC, the goal is not to make NQC more stable - it • is to allow it
> to spread to more people and platforms than I could • personally support.
> NQC's stability comes from other practices.
Ok,
what I meant is that open source beta (and other) releases improve the
quality of
the overall product. I don't think nqc has a stability problem.
> From my end, if I ditched the Linux/x86 executable, then I could do the
entire release on my Mac (including a verification of the Unix source
using LinuxPPC). Would this be a good trade to make...adding source
releases for beta, but dropping linux binary releases entirely?
> If there • was huge demand for a Linux binary, I suspect there would be
> other users • willing to build and post it. One user has already sent me a
> spec for an • NQC RPM, but I haven't had time to work with it. This is the
> sort of • thing I'd love to have someone else take over since I'm not much
> of a
Linux user myself.
As the majority of linux and other unix users have the
facilities to build their own binaries from source, the need for linux
binaries is probably reduced compared to the windows/mac versions.
I'd be
willing to lend a hand by building linux binaries and/or an RPM if that would
help.
--
Leonard Stiles
email: lstiles@hotpop.com
ICQ: 28845586
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| I'm combining two replies in the thread into a single message... (...) I agree completely that philisophically a beta release of free software should also be free software. I have been cutting corners on this with NQC out of praticality. There is a (...) (25 years ago, 8-Jan-00, to lugnet.robotics.rcx.nqc)
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