[Info-vax] Hobbyist program on The Register

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 4/9/2024 10:55 PM, John H. Reinhardt wrote:
>> On 4/9/2024 9:18 PM, Dave Froble wrote:
>>>
>>> I've wondered about the complaints about patching the CL 
>>> distributions. Not sure I understand.  What would stop a patch of 
>>> such?  Of course, there is the question of access to patches.
> 
> That's the complaint.  The assumption is that there will be no access to 
> patches nor new versions other than when the next CLP vmdk is released.  
> If the CLP stuff is only on a once-a-year vmdk distribution, then bug 
> fixes will be far and few between and if they are nasty ones then may 
> stop people from using the distribution at all.

I think of this differently.

Hobbyists may not care so much about bugs. Unless of course
it directly impacts them.

But having hobbyists run old version instead of either
latest and greatest release version or field test version
means that VSI miss out on free testing.

The CLP users has found a lot of compiler bugs in compiler FT.

Arne