> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Stevens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 06:05
>
> on 1/15/01 9:03 PM, "Paulo Gaspar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > The reasons why there are advantages for (at least) the next year or so
> > on having both 3.3 and 4.x were already stated so often today...
>
> 3.3 will get released. That isn't the question.
GREAT! I was getting "confused" about that.
> > ...and also how 3.3 commiters are scratching an itch and will not focus
> > on 4.x while the itch is there...
>
> Not true at all. Costin has said that he will not work on 4.x. Again, my
> point being that perhaps it would be smarter to encourage people
> to work on
> improving 4.x more quickly instead of having this fork of developer
> resources working on 3.x.
Some of us have production sites _now_. It is smarter for us to do whatever
keeps/gets those sites running ASAP.
Scratching the itch, remember?
> If Costin and everyone else had put all of their energy on
> working on 4.x in
> the first place, we wouldn't be in the same situation we are in today and
> people would have been more willing to migrate from 3.0/3.1 to 4.x because
> the improvement would have been more clear. Instead, now we are
> stuck in the
> position of having to give people 3.2 and potentially 3.3 because people
> have invested a lot into building on top of it. Where does it stop?
"If" here means "maybe". Can anyone be sure that 4.0 would be production
ready now?
I am sure that all that people can still be motivated to migrate to 4.x
_when_ it is ready for production if it has real advantages - and I am not
doubting it may have.
Just because you want it now, it does not mean that you can drag people
with different needs. The reason 3.3 is there is just because there are
several committers with those different needs.
So, I guess "it stops" when 4.0 is able to satisfy those different needs
too.
Paulo
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