From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: bk_usenet@yahoo.co.uk (BK) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: MCL5 Date: 9 May 2003 09:48:15 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <39d9c156.0305090848.743ac725@posting.google.com> References: <39d9c156.0305071747.35c7365e@posting.google.com> <39d9c156.0305080602.7c47d8b5@posting.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052499171 17903 80.91.224.249 (9 May 2003 16:52:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 9 May 2003 16:52:51 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 09 18:52:47 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19EB71-0004eT-00 for ; Fri, 09 May 2003 18:52:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EB5D-0007da-04 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 09 May 2003 12:50:55 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 24 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.132.31.10 Original-X-Trace: posting.google.com 1052498895 27173 127.0.0.1 (9 May 2003 16:48:15 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 9 May 2003 16:48:15 GMT Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112996 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9490 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9490 joswig@corporate-world.lisp.de (Rainer Joswig) wrote ... > > ... why would I not wait until the thing *actually* ships? > > It is cheaper to get the beta now and later the shipping version. Right? Well, I don't mind paying a little more for the certainty that it actually ships when it ships ;-) I can't recall ever having paid for beta software that was actually called beta software. I waited with OSX until it was a commercial release as well (yes, I know many people say that it was still de-facto beta until 10.1 or 10.2 depending on opinion). > A lot of people who have Lisp-based code written for earlier versions > of MCL are already porting this code to the new Carbon-based MCL 5, > using the beta version of MCL 5. Certainly for those people it makes perfect sense. No doubt about it. However, I don't have any such requirements. thanks rgds bk