Re: Emacs-devel Digest, Vol 52, Issue 61

[Eric S. Raymond]

Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden>:
> On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 04:10:57PM -0400, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> 
> > Um, what else do you suppose the fact that I half-expect the build to
> > be broken on any given day means?
> 
> That you do a `cvs update' with dread, not knowing how many unproductive
> hours lie ahead before you can get back to doing real work on Emacs.
> 
> That you will thus procrastinate updating Emacs, and suffer
> dissatisfaction from not doing the Right Thing.
> 
> That working on Emacs is less fun than it might be, and that this has
> thus gone way down on your personal hacking priority list.
> 
> Am I right?

Absolutely.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>