Re: Please add warning to download page if tarball isn't patched up with all latest security fixes

[Tim Hill <drtimhill@...>]

On Aug 21, 2014, at 11:50 PM, Thijs Schreijer <thijs@thijsschreijer.nl> wrote:

>> The Lua download page is intended to help people who do not
>> know much, not to remind people who should know better what
>> things they must not forget. The kind of wishy-washy uncertainty
>> in these proposals will just confuse, even scare, the person who
>> is downloading Lua for the first time, to quite probably a Windows
>> machine, for what is likely to the first C program she ever compiles.
>> 
>> Show me one download page of a well-tested reliable product
>> that contains the sort of phrasing you suggest. Just one.
> 
> Good code without documentation is hard to use. Same applies here. Document the release properly in that it might not be patched up to the latest, just makes it more clear. Doesn't harm anybody.
> 
> +1 for Jonas's proposal
> 
> Sorry Dirk, imo you're making a silly argument here.
> 
> Thijs

No, imo Dirk is right. Pretty much all that fancy wording says is “bugs discovered after this release are bugs in this release”, which is pointless.

—Tim