[BusyBox] BusyBox 1.0.0-rc3 released

Manuel Novoa III mjn3 at codepoet.org
Mon Aug 16 20:31:41 UTC 2004


Hello Robert,

On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:57:44PM -0400, Robert P. J. Day wrote:
> hang on, there's something from an earlier posting i'd like to 
> address.  as erik wrote (and everyone understandably agreed with), 
> it's just time to get everyone off of BB 0.6.x.  agreed, since 0.6 has 
> all sorts of shortcomings and issues, and it would be terrific to just 
> bury that sucker once and for all.  no problem there.
> 
> but how do you get folks to upgrade?  by giving them a *compelling* 
> and *irrefutable* reason to do that, which would normally mean a brand 
> new 1.0.0 release that's been thoroughly test-driven and checked out.

We don't have to get folks to upgrade.  They're free to use whatever
version they like.  But certainly one "compelling and irrefutable"
reason to upgrade would be the cessation of all support for versions
prior to the 1.0 release.

Manuel



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