On 02/21/2013 01:04 PM, Johannes Schlüter wrote: > On Thu, 2013-02-21 at 17:06 +0100, Marco Pivetta wrote: >> On 21 February 2013 17:04, Johannes Schlüter <johan...@schlueters.de> wrote: >> >>> The quoted business decision was "We want something stable and fast", an >>> emphasis of fixing bugs over adding new ones. This sounds sane to me. > >> Doesn't exclude new features then: so what is this all about? > > * We have limited development resources > * Developers can either fix bugs and tune code or add features > * All new features go through different rounds of fixing newly > introduced bugs > * All new features increase the amount of things to maintain > long-term > > I'm not against new features, but sometimes I wonder about the focus.
Traits is a good example of that. We, and by we I mean Dmitry, are still fixing problems with Traits and we are closing in on 5 years after the initial proposal in 2008. And Traits is sort of middle of the road in terms of complexity. We have had more complex things proposed and we still only have one Dmitry. -Rasmus -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
