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Subject: Re: Again: stop update madness!

Author: John Hatcher

Date: 02:38:09 03/13/01

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On March 13, 2001 at 05:12:43, Jouni Uski wrote:

>I think I have posted this previously, but it's good time to repost. It makes
>no sense to made mini update every two weeks. There should be law to prevent
>update, if real engine strenght is not raised by 30 rating points :-)
>Of course SERIOUS bugs can be corrected. I really respect Junior6, which is
>from 1999 and still almost unbeaten in SSDF matches!
>
>Jouni


I couldn't agree less.  Your "30 rating points" criterion is arbitrary and
excessive.  A programmer should feel free to update his program whenever he
wishes.  Why should he have a buggy version in use by thousands of people when
he has found fixes for the bugs?

Personally, I appreciate a programmer who fixes and improves his program
regularly.  What is the down side?  If the programmer has found bugs why should
he wait for self-appointed, unsolicited, "testers" to tell him about them?  How,
exactly, are you inconvenienced by his updates?

Regards,
John



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