From kde-user Fri Aug 13 04:55:07 1999 From: dep Date: Fri, 13 Aug 1999 04:55:07 +0000 To: kde-user Subject: Re: KDE 1.1.2 X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kde-user&m=93451990004323 On Fri, 13 Aug 1999, Mosfet wrote: |KDE2.0 betas will be released well before next year. We don't really know yet |when the final release will be. It's hard to tell with free software projects, |people tend not to do anything for a few weeks in CVS then make huge commits. true. though it's to be noted that 1.2, or 1.1.2, or whatever it ends up being called, was to have been done by now, and it's some weeks away. admittedly, developing for 1.X isn't as exciting as 2.0 is, but the next version that will have the kde stamp on it is of some importance. the 1.89 beta thing seems to have fallen pretty flat as an idea, and i don't think anybody wants to rush to release. i really doubt that there will be a beta that is close to a release candidate before, say, february. and no, this isn't fud but instead an observation based on the kind of care that time has demonstrated goes into a kde release. |The CVS is shaping up nicely tho IMHO. There is some obvious loose ends that |need to be wrapped up but both the amount of development by mostly volunteer |programmers and the quality is real high at this point. true, but we need to remember that the last 20 percent is what takes 80 percent of the time. which is as it should be. kde is the standard desktop now, and it ought to be beaten to death before it is released. the whole linux paradigm is changing. look at just the user list. the fact that kde tops most distributions now has changed the entire flavor of the list. this will become more rather than less. which is fine, but it is also different. -- dep__________________________________________________________________ 2000 is a number that breaks computers. 01-01-01 is when the millennium begins. -- Send posts to: kde-user@lists.netcentral.net Send all commands to: kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message: "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off" All kde mailing lists are archived at http://lists.kde.org ********************************************************************** This list is from your pals at NetCentral