> On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Matthew Jacob wrote: > > # > Something that someone playing with bleeding edge bits should > # > be willing to do, IMHO. > # > # That's ridiculous. There's substantial work ongoing in 4.0 with enough > # people involved that changing things around for the hell of it and not > # sticking to broadcast times is just plain stupid. It's called 'dufus > # engineering', or 'freshman humour' or some such. Just because it's > # so-called 'bleeding edge' doesn't mean you can just integrate any old crap > # and just say "well- it's bleeding edge". Harumph. >
Sorry- let me apologize for bad tone. Bad day for me. > We are not changing it for the hell of it. From what I gather > David already has things ready and is just waiting for Sunday > to come to commit the changes. Committing them now gives much > of the people who will work to fix things that get broken a > whole day more this weekend to work on them. This isn't 'dufus > engineering' it is called advancing the state-of-the-art. It > has been a long time coming and needs to be done, sooner than > later. > > Just because the compiler changes doesn't mean development on > the 4.0 branch have to stop. We need to get this change in the > hands of as many people as we can so that we can work out any > remaining hitches. Waiting another 24 hours == wasting another > 24 hours, IMHO. I suppose. It's also fair to state that sticking to stated plans is good too. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
