Karl Fogel wrote on Tue, Jan 25, 2022 at 01:22:07 -0600: > On 25 Jan 2022, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > We _could_ make them in a way that doesn't require us to provide > > compatibility for them forever, such as by releasing them as > > "experimental" (cf. > > https://subversion.apache.org/docs/release-notes/1.10#shelving), > > by releasing an alpha or a nightly and soliciting feedback for > > that, or by prototyping in Python what can be so prototyped. > > We could, but I also have the feeling that after a while (a few months?) of > usage of the basic implementation, we'll all have a pretty good idea of what > improvements would be most helpful.
Sure. I was just thinking that getting the functionality into a tarball would mean more people would be able to test it. > > (Aside: "explicitly-hydrated" is a bit of a mouthful. I considered just > > referring to these as "somatic" and "autonomous" pristines…) > > Yes... that would be so... clarifying... <ahem> :-) I know; that's why I didn't use those terms. But they _would_ have been very greppable :) Cheers, Daniel
