Re: GNOME 0.27 is released

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

    Nelson> Maybe there's some way to make that more clear? The
    Nelson> releases are getting announced on Slashdot, for instance,
    Nelson> so lots of newbies are running over to try them out and
    Nelson> don't realize they might have to hack to compile. (It's
    Nelson> just like the old days before RPM or autoconf when you
    Nelson> just expected it to take a few hours to compile some GNU
    Nelson> software on your Ultrix 2.2 machine).

Nelson, your points are good, but I'd like to say that if s/w has a
0.28 version number, they should not whine (on
ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/ that is the understood rule).