said:
>The announcement language indicates that
>they may only be up for a few days (so grab them now),
This is true. Of course there are well known sites that cache the good
ones forever.
>they are addressing some issue or other,
This is true.
>and that
>perhaps we should not mess with them absent some
>clear need.
This is a YMMV. Most of the denizens on comp.os.os2.bugs consider
themselves part of Scott's test team. The upside far outweighs the
downside. It quickly becomes clear what is good and what is not and what
is better than what you have.
The best of the lot becomes production code with no additional changes.
QA 101 says you must ship what you test and you must test what you ship.
Anything else is a sure recipe for failure.
>Perhaps this type of description is
>overly hedging and conservative, I don't know.
It's there to protect the clueless from themselves, as best as is
possible. Without this warning, some folks would assume the code was
production quality and not protect themselves against unexpected results.
Regards,
Steven
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