On 02 Jun 2010, at 14:57, Graeme Geldenhuys wrote:
Op 2010-06-02 14:48, Jonas Maebe het geskryf:
Yes (at least other people reported bugs about it on fpc-devel).
If I remember correctly, those discussions were only while it was
implemented. No real-world usage afterwards.
Most features only get extensive real-world usage once they appear in
a released version.
There was a discussion about it on core. It was merged because
a) the merge occurred shortly after the previous release, so there
was
a lot of time to test its effect on the fixes branch
Just because it's in Trunk or Fixes branch, doesn't mean it's
actually used
and thus tested. From this message thread, not many even knew it was
implemented. Hence my concern about it moving so quickly into Fixes
branch.
Hence points b) and c) in my original mail. There are two separate
things:
1) does it endanger the stability of existing code? Answer: unlikely
in this case (and this is the most important question for the fixes
branch).
2) is the feature itself stable? Answer: uncertain, although Paul did
add a lot of tests to the testsuite, other people also tested it, I
reviewed most of the code for it (and Florian possibly a well), and in
general features often experience some growing pains when they are
first released because of the reason mentioned above.
Jonas
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