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At 10:51 PM 6/28/2000, Crist J. Clark wrote:

>You are one of the proponents of keeping STABLE as "stable" as
>possible. We all have heard several times that you never start using a
>new release until x.2. Now, you want the active development done on
>this stable branch? It seems that you want to have your cake and eat
>it too (to use a cliche that never made much sense to me).

There should be more active POLISHING on the stable branch before each
divergence. From .0 to about .2. (Heck, if this were done, it might
well be that .1 was really solid enough for production work.)

--Brett



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