Re: Win32 release warning

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>
To: pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Win32 release warning
Date: 2004-08-26 15:27:28
Message-ID: m38yc1kjhb.fsf@wolfe.cbbrowne.com
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After a long battle with technology, andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net (Andrew Dunstan), an earthling, wrote:
> Bruce Momjian wrote:
>
>>I have shortened your paragraph to:
>>
>> Because Win32 is significantly different from the Unix platforms
>> supported in previous releases, this port might have more bugs
>> than other supported platforms in this release. Please
>> test it thoroughly before using it in production.
>>
>>and made the change in release.sgml. Do we need more?
>
> I don't much like "might have more bugs". Perhaps "might be less
> robust" or "might be less stable"?

How about:

"We cannot be as confident in its stability as we are for other
platforms that have been tested and supported across numerous past
releases."
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