Read this morning>>> R : Copyright 1998, Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka >>> Version 0.61.2 Alpha (March 15, 1998)----- So, there still is no "R beta" around.... - If I didn't know R, would I use a statistics software, if it was still in alpha testing state? - Is this really what we want to tell people about R? More to the point: I think, we could have called it beta, really. Even though there still are known bugs. S-plus 4.0 wasn't even called beta... ==> Should we plan to release 0.61.3 Beta ? ---- (with only very minor changes from 0.61.2) Other opinions? Martin Maechler <maechler@stat.math.ethz.ch> <>< Seminar fuer Statistik, ETH-Zentrum SOL G1; Sonneggstr.33 ETH (Federal Inst. Technology) 8092 Zurich SWITZERLAND phone: x-41-1-632-3408 fax: ...-1086 http://www.stat.math.ethz.ch/~maechler/ -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>> On Wed, 25 Mar 1998 09:22:23 +0100, >>>>> Martin Maechler (MM) wrote:MM> Read this morning>>>> R : Copyright 1998, Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka >>>> Version 0.61.2 Alpha (March 15, 1998)MM> ----- MM> So, there still is no "R beta" around.... MM> - If I didn't know R, would I use a statistics software, if it was still=20 MM> in alpha testing state? MM> - Is this really what we want to tell people about R? MM> More to the point: MM> I think, we could have called it beta, really. MM> Even though there still are known bugs. MM> S-plus 4.0 wasn't even called beta... MM> =3D=3D> Should we plan to release =20 MM> 0.61.3 Beta ? MM> ---- (with only very minor changes from 0.61.2) MM> Other opinions? Hmm, as long as we have a major version number of 0 I think we could omit any ALPHA or BETA declaration, because the 0 implies that this is not considered to be a final release. Then we could restart thinking about alpha/beta statements once 1.0 is out ... That's also the reason why I removed the text ``alpha and beta versions'' from the CRAN main page and replaced it by a simple ``R source code''. Just my 10g (=3Dsmallest coin in Austria), Fritz --=20 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Friedrich Leisch =20 Institut f=FCr Statistik Tel: (+43 1) 58801 4541 Technische Universit=E4t Wien Fax: (+43 1) 504 14 98 Wiedner Hauptstra=DFe 8-10/1071 Friedrich.Leisch@ci.tuwien.ac.at A-1040 Wien, Austria http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch PGP public key http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~leisch/pgp.key ------------------------------------------------------------------- -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._
>>>>> Martin Maechler writes:> Read this morning >>>> R : Copyright 1998, Robert Gentleman and Ross Ihaka >>>> Version 0.61.2 Alpha (March 15, 1998) > ----- > So, there still is no "R beta" around....> - If I didn't know R, would I use a statistics software, if it was still > in alpha testing state? > - Is this really what we want to tell people about R?> More to the point: > I think, we could have called it beta, really. > Even though there still are known bugs.> S-plus 4.0 wasn't even called beta...> ==> Should we plan to release > 0.61.3 Beta ? > ---- (with only very minor changes from 0.61.2)> Other opinions?stable releases <=> BETA development releases <=> ALPHA I.e., (btw, YES!), 0.61.3 (BETA) 0.62.0 (ALPHA) which would be great anyway as then we don't have to worry about even/odd version numbers ... (our numbering is the opposite of e.g. the Linux kernel). -k -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-devel mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info", "help", or "[un]subscribe" (in the "body", not the subject !) To: r-devel-request@stat.math.ethz.ch _._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._._