Why use old version?

[Romeyn Prescott]

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>  > Must be an old version of xmms? It swaps bytes if necessary since 1.2.5
>>  or so.
>
>Hi Michel,
>
>That's good to know.  I was using xmms-1.2.4 that came with YDL 2.1,
>but I see that YDL 2.2 has xmms-1.2.5, so I'll give that a try.
>

I find this curious, and I'd like to politely ask why you were using 
an old version?  One of the first things I do when I decide to make 
more than trivial one-time use of <some app> is to see if I have the 
latest version.  I didn't even let the YDL installer install Samba, 
netatalk, or apache, for example because I KNEW there were newer 
versions out there.

I'm sure that what's on the YDL 2.1 CD was current when the iso was 
built, but those things are static, aren't they?  Hardly a source for 
"current" versions of ANYTHING mere weeks after release!

Granted, what's on the CD is probably known to work properly with 
that distribution, but stuff's always changing!

But that's just MY opinion.  I could be wrong.  ;-)

...ROMeyn

PS:  Sorry...it's the first day of Spring Break and all the students 
are gone.  And it's a Monday.  And I haven't finished my coffee.
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