Re: MySQL 4

[Nathan E Norman <nnorman@incanus.net>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:58:23PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
> Brian Nelson wrote:
> >Vineet Kumar <debian-user@virtual.doorstop.net> writes:
> >
> >
> >>* Andrew Pritchard <andrew@teppic.co.uk> [20030318 15:27 PST]:
> >>
> >>>With the recent release of MySQL 4, I was wondering when (if ever) Debian
> >>>was going to be incorporating it into at least the 'testing' tree (let 
> >>>alone
> >>
> >>After two weeks of being in unstable with no RC bugs.
> >
> >
> >Har, if only it was that simple.  See:
> >
> >  http://www.debian.org/devel/testing
> >
> >for an explanation of what it takes for a package to enter testing.
> >
> 
> I have to admit, this is a heck of a system.
> 
> Not necessarily the fastest, but pretty darn smart.  Now if only we could 
> get commercial products released on this kind of cycle we might have fewer 
> recalls and cruddy junk!

Having worked in the commercial software industry, I can assure you
that you don't want to know what kind of criteria for release many
software products have.  It'd be funny if the software was cheap ...

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