Re: Freezing for 2.18

[Xavier Scheuer]

On 10 March 2013 22:05, David Kastrup <address@hidden> wrote:
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> If a refined interface can defuse these cases as well, it would
> certainly seem like a good step to take.

Thank you for this wise message.

> Well, the question is always the balance between gain and pain.  Where
> the pain is not an immediate consequence of the gain but rather a
> byproduct, there is no point in being fatalistic about not working on
> further improvements.

You are right.
I did not mean to be fatalistic nor imply stopping further improvements.

Sometimes when you make internal changes the gain (immediate and future)
is not immediately "seen" by the user, whereas the pain affecting
existing user code will "jump at their faces".

> That does not mean that any problems in that area should get swept under
> the rug.  Nothing is good enough that it can't be further improved, and
> that it was worse at some point of time is no reason for further
> improvement.

Cannot agree more.
And it is great to know you are all doing your best, without forgetting
to take users' perception into consideration.

> We'll have our fair share of surprises for 2.18 as well, but that
> does not mean that we should not strive for the best 2.18 we can
> deliver while the game is still on.

Very nice!
Thank you and good continuation.

Cheers,
Xavier

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Xavier Scheuer <address@hidden>