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Subject: nightly Mozilla binaries now available
From: Jamie Zawinski
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 1998 13:12:40 -0700
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Precompiled binary versions of the latest version of Mozilla are now
available from mozilla.org. New versions will be made available nightly.
These executables are completely untested -- use at your own risk!
They are also timebombed, and will expire after 30 days. Currently,
they are only available for a handful of platforms; we may make other
platforms available eventually (but deluging us with requests right now
won't make that happen any faster...)
See http://www.mozilla.org/binaries.html for details.
And please report any bugs you find! http://www.mozilla.org/bugs/
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Subject: Re: nightly Mozilla binaries now available
From: Joe Keane
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1998 08:37:50 -0700
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>They are also timebombed, and will expire after 30 days.
That seems pretty gratuitous.
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Subject: Re: nightly Mozilla binaries now available
From: Mike Shaver
Date: Sat, 05 Sep 1998 17:06:58 -0400
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Joe Keane wrote:
> >They are also timebombed, and will expire after 30 days.
>
> That seems pretty gratuitous.
Why? These aren't betas, and they aren't of any known quality. They're
for people who would pull the CVS tree and build it, but don't have the
resources or know-how to make the compiler go.
We don't want people using these things-that-just-happened-to-compile
forever, and reporting the same bugs forever. The binaries are for the
folks who want the bleeding edge. If you want to use it as your browser
forever, then by all means pull the tree or grab a tarball -- they're
tested some more -- and build yourself a browser!
All Netscape betas have had expiry dates on them, so that content
authors and tech support folk wouldn't have to support all the quirks of
the 5 or 6 betas ad infinitum. We're going a pre-alpha release a _day_
now, and so we've ratcheted back the expiry accordingly. Just trying to
set people's expectations appropriately.
Mike
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