Re: Newsreaders

From: Admiral Jake (johnjac76[nospam)
Date: 02/27/04 

Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2004 12:55:33 -0600

"Dan Miser" <dmiser@wi.rr.com> wrote in message
news:403f79d9@newsgroups.borland.com...
> Of course, I didn't even read Jake's original message about frequent
> updating as a complaint. If updates are done too often, developers will be
> less prone to add code (features, bug fixes, etc.) since they would have
to
> continually update their source and constantly merge - at least until they
> were able to contribute the code back to Colin. My guess is that
developers
> will start contributing more when the frequency of updates slows down.
Note
> that I am not commenting on whether or not Colin should or should not do
> this. That's almost exactly what Jake said, though.

Yep. That is why I have to laugh when people accuse me of complaining about
Xananews. If they actually knew how to read, they would see that I wasn't
saying anything at all about whether this is good or bad. I was just noting
a consequence, without commenting on whether that consequence was good or
bad. (Truth be told, I am very glad that Xananews has such an update
schedule.)

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