From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
To: Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Bzr switch
Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2009 10:14:32 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ws6uwmiv.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <871vp2ehah.fsf@catnip.gol.com>
Miles Bader writes:
> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org> writes:
> > > > In the Bzr world, there's always something new coming up providing this
> > > > and that performance improvement. So there's no point waiting for the
> > > > next one, cause when the time is passed, you'll end up wanting to wait
> > > > for the next next one, etc... ad nauseam.
> > >
> > > I understand what you mean, but This Time Is Different (or so I am told,
> > > in no uncertain terms, by every Bazaar developer I talk to).
> >
> > Who are you talking to? The list traffic tells a very different story.
>
> Karl's reply had such a cynical tone that I wasn't really sure whether he
> was agreeing or disagreeing with Stefan!
Now that I reread it as I quoted him, I see your point!
Unfortunately, it really is hard to tell given that both Mark and the
users want format stability badly, and the developers *do* keep
promising that This Time Is Different (specifically, that from now on
they'll do a better job of keeping format changes out of the users'
faces, and that they're over the performance hump). I think both of
those are actually true -- but neither promise is going to be kept
100%, and (on historical form) the bzr.devs are not going to be able
to resist the temptation to achieve performance improvements with
format tweaks.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-06-30 1:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-06-25 13:12 Bzr switch Stefan Monnier
2009-06-28 6:53 ` Karl Fogel
2009-06-28 10:45 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-06-28 10:56 ` Daniel Clemente
2009-06-28 19:55 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-28 20:26 ` Karl Fogel
2009-06-28 23:41 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-06-29 3:50 ` Karl Fogel
2009-06-29 23:37 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-06-29 23:44 ` Miles Bader
2009-06-30 1:14 ` Stephen J. Turnbull [this message]
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2009-06-30 2:05 Robert Collins
2009-06-30 10:09 ` Daniel Clemente
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