[m-rev.] diff: announce 0.13 release on webpage

Julien Fischer juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au
Fri Sep 15 16:35:25 AEST 2006


On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Ian MacLarty wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 03:41:01PM +1000, Peter Wang wrote:
>> On 2006-09-15, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>>> +Note: please do not be alarmed by the fact that this software has some
>>> bugs.
>>> +ALL useful software has bugs.  During the development of the Mercury
>>> +implementation we have found bugs in gcc, as, ld, the dynamic loader,
>>> +and even the OS kernel.  We hope that by listing the known outstanding bugs
>>> +here we are doing our users a service.  It would be disappointing if
>>> +anyone were to infer the wrong thing from it.
>>
>> In my opinion this paragraph is unnecessary.  I suggest deleting at
>> least the second sentence -- it should still get the point across
>> without sounding bitchy.
>>
>
> I agree that the paragraph is unnecessary.
>

It's been in there since 0.9.1 (over six years ago) - feel free to
fix/change if that's how you feel.

Julien.
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