[Tutor] The philosophy of versions

ak@silmarill.org ak@silmarill.org
Sun, 24 Jun 2001 07:20:36 -0400


> Jesse W wrote
> > Honors to all tutor-ians,
> > 
> > 	My major difficulty in Python is not precisely a programming 
> > problem but a meta-programming problem.  I (incorrectly) think of 
> > my programs as inexorably moving toward a final state of perfection, 
> > and I therefore have something of a mental block on the idea of 
> > releasing versions or writing changelogs and things like that.  I am 
> > quite aware that this is not a sane view, and I would like to work 
> > through this block, but I have not yet figured out how to do it.  If any 
> > of you have any comments, ideas, or responses to this, please post.

Is the program useful? If you answered yes, release it. If you released it
yesterday, and today it's even more useful, release new version. It's not
like releasing it stops all further development! ;-)

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