Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Experiment

Author:David Valentine
Posted:2/28/1999; 9:21:09 AM
Topic:Mail to the Future Server Functionality
Msg #:3350 (In response to 3346)
Prev/Next:3348 / 3351

Guha claimed in October that this would be fixed in 4.51 but looking at the change notes for 4.51, there's no evidence that it has been fixed. And MS promised ...

Right now, if a major bug crops up in Linux, you have a patch in a few days, it is incorporated into the kernel in the next release, and released by the "vendors" in the quarterly updates. Not all fixes make it into releases.

Only time will tell how NS will handle bug fixes, but I would say that quarterly releases of the Communicator product would be about right.

As long as the major bug exists in the Moz code, you can expect a patch quickly, and then you can use the Mozilla browser until the next release.

What one does expect are more diverse options for the browser. A browser which understands "XML-RPC" may be a stand alone product until it gets blessed by the mozilla community. And certain things will probably never be fully incorporated. Doczilla is like this. How many of us need a full SGML display engine? why have the extra 2 megs for the sgml stuff.

And some versions of Moz may have the What's related feature removed. if not, compile it yourself w/o the feature. Distribute if you feel it is necessary. In the future, you have a choice.

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