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by Scott Wilson-3
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On 21 Apr 2009, at 19:42, James Harkins wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:32 PM, felix <felix@...>
> wrote:
>> its been on my to do list for a long time
>> but I'm swamped with stuff
>> ideally I would break it up into crucial which is the bare basics
>> and crucial-extras which is mostly archaic
>> I'll try to look at it.
>> I think there are some methods in main that use crucial extensions
>
> Hmm... non-trivial chance of breakage... right before RC... maybe it's
> a bit late in the day for this. (This is RC, not beta... but then,
> releasing beta-quality software is standard practice in the industry!)
>
> I don't mean to stand in the way of this, just saying, pulling out a
> chunk of classes at the last minute without time for testing...
> "measure twice, cut once." If we're sure there's enough time to
> measure twice, OK. If we're not sure, maybe it would be better to hold
> off. (Will there be another RC?)
Hopefully not another RC. On the other hand, if there are crucial
dependancies in Main they should be removed anyway as even with the
existing situation it should be optional. Arguably better to remove
and give it a chance to be tested before final release than to wait.
But IAC there will without question be a 3.3.1 with bug fixes, which
is what we're talking about here.
S.
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> On Tue, Apr 21, 2009 at 2:32 PM, felix <felix@...>
> wrote:
>> its been on my to do list for a long time
>> but I'm swamped with stuff
>> ideally I would break it up into crucial which is the bare basics
>> and crucial-extras which is mostly archaic
>> I'll try to look at it.
>> I think there are some methods in main that use crucial extensions
>
> Hmm... non-trivial chance of breakage... right before RC... maybe it's
> a bit late in the day for this. (This is RC, not beta... but then,
> releasing beta-quality software is standard practice in the industry!)
>
> I don't mean to stand in the way of this, just saying, pulling out a
> chunk of classes at the last minute without time for testing...
> "measure twice, cut once." If we're sure there's enough time to
> measure twice, OK. If we're not sure, maybe it would be better to hold
> off. (Will there be another RC?)
Hopefully not another RC. On the other hand, if there are crucial
dependancies in Main they should be removed anyway as even with the
existing situation it should be optional. Arguably better to remove
and give it a chance to be tested before final release than to wait.
But IAC there will without question be a 3.3.1 with bug fixes, which
is what we're talking about here.
S.
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