On Thu, Nov 08, 2018 at 08:39:30AM -0500, Michael Stone wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2018 at 06:45:14PM -0800, Seth Arnold wrote: > > It doesn't help that the distributions in general want to support Firefox > > on more platforms than the Rust team supports as tier-1 platforms. A > > constant cadence of updates every six weeks is faster than anything else > > excepting the Linux kernel. It's a lot of work. > > Complaining that someone else's release schedule is too fast is frankly > unreasonable--you're basically asking them to slow down development for your > convenience. At least they're doing releases, which is much better than the > current trend of "well, just use the latest git head".
There's no downside to frequent releases. There is a big fat downside to requiring a very recent release to build the current one. And frequent releases make you feel that you can drop compat despite the time difference being small in absolute terms. Ie: "release early, release often" is good for technical reasons, but may fail psychological ones. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ Have you heard of the Amber Road? For thousands of years, the ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Romans and co valued amber, hauled through the Europe over the ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ mountains and along the Vistula, from Gdańsk. To where it came ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ together with silk (judging by today's amber stalls).
