On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 02:02:19PM -0500, Shawn Masters wrote: > You raise an interesting point about the much higher level of > abstraction that Wei is trying for in 5.X and beyond. I do find it taking > longer to develop in 5.X for some tasks, and not any shorter for others.
Can you give an example of something that is harder to do in 5.x than in 4.2? I think all of the programming idioms available in 4.2 should be preserved. Any code written with 4.2 should compile with 5.x with at most minor modifications. ALso, in CVS the 5.x code is in a separate directory from the 4.x, so there is no reason to branch. If you have any patches for the latest 4.x code in CVS, I'll be happy to take them (bug fixes only, obviously).
