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From: earle@MAHENDO.JPL.NASA.GOV (Greg Earle)
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Subject: Comment on Release Notes for X Version 11 Release 1
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Date: Wed, 16-Sep-87 23:07:17 EDT
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I've just skimmed the `releasenotes' paper with X V11 R1.  After noting
all the bugs with the clients (`xxx dumps 
core' `xxx doesn't work on a
color frame buffer' `xxx freaks out under wm' `xxx does this & that');
the fact that there is a `new' resource manager that will be the
standard, but nothing uses it yet and uses the `old' one instead; and
finally, noting the real long time allowed for beta-test Release 4 (all
of a week and a half?), I'm wondering if someone didn't have a gun to
Athena's (collective) head to get Release 1 out to the waiting public
on Sept. 15th Or Else, no matter what the state of it was.

Can any of the particulars comment?  By the time I waded through the
BUGS sections for all those clients, I began to wonder `Why release it
if there are still this many outstanding (& recognized, that's really
the key - you can't do much about the bugs you haven't found yet) problems'.
I'm sure those in the know will have a better idea than I, but I just 
couldn't help being curious about that.  Since this *is* the Official
Godlike X Release, Standard Of The Known Universe, I would have thought
that beta test would have lasted until even the niggly-ass leaks were
spot-welded shut ... (then again, perhaps one should be taking the attitude
that the Protocol and sample server are Truly Godlike, and anything else you
get is gravy? - note that this is *not* a flame, I'm just wondering)

Wait for Release 2, anyone?

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