[IRCServices] Why there's no public CVS

[Andrew Church]

>> Speaking of 4.5.0, is there anywhere the masses can d/l this while it's
>> being worked on? Is there a CVS anywhere?
>
>I don't know about Andy, but I was reluctant to allow the general world to
>use under development source due to the number of unhelpfull bug reports I
>was getting. People did not seem to get the fact that the source was VERY
>alpha and as such didn't do many of the things it should - like saving
>databases or working properly. As things get closer to a final release it
>becomes easier to release it as beta code. 4.5 was getting very close to
>that stage when I last worked on it. However, Andy has to pick up where I
>left off, which means that it will probably be longer until it gets
>released.
>
>I hope this makes it clearer as to why the source was not released to the
>public.

     Just for the record, this is more or less my reasoning as well, though
for me it's simply that I _know_ the code won't work right and I don't need
dozens or hundreds of E-mails telling me that.  I plan to do like I did with
previous versions: when 4.5.0-to-be is more or less stable, I'll release
"pre-versions" (4.5pre0, 4.5pre1 etc.) for people to play with.

     P.S.  I'll get to the channel suspension stuff later--I have a bit of a
mail backlog to work through.

  --Andrew Church
    achurch at achurch.org | New address - please note.
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