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Kyle Jones writes:

> Neal Becker writes:
>> >>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:
>> 
sb> The 20.0 release is going to be this weekend.

>> Really?  Am I the only one who finds 20.0 to be much less stable
>> than 19.4?  19.4 has been extremely reliable - the best xemacs
>> ever.  I stopped using 20.0 for daily work because of various
>> problems and crashes.

> I see crashes too, but they are not frequent enough to make me
> uneasy about using XEmacs for development work, which I have been
> doing steadily with the betas for about a month now.

For whatever it's worth, except for a handful of crashes I figured out
how to duplicate, v20 has not crashed on me since KOI-8 decoding was
disabled.  With the fixing of jpeg loading, v20 has been stabler for
me than 19.14 which crashed consistently when I ran across the
occasional base64 jpeg in Gnus.  I plan on finishing the work on 19.15
using the installed 20.0 or the early 20.1 betas.

It's possible that some of the trouble people are having is due to the
use of Motif.

> No release is perfect.  But you can make up for a lot in the hearts
> of users by being responsive.

Exactly.

> What I think is very important is when the reports of crashes start
> coming in and fixes are found for them, that you do interim
> releases.  A crash that is an annoyance the first time it happens is
> an outrage the fiftieth time it happens two months later.

I'm not sure it's feasible to get releases more frequent than two
months apart, but I do not intend to let any of the early 20.x's sit
for very long until we get more code tested and stabilized.  If we get
up to 20.6 by year-end, so be it.
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