[...]
> When I was halfway or even 2/3 done with my changes
> both libxml2
> and libxslt had new micro releases, with lots of
> nice bug fixes.
> Even though I'm all for using the latest and
> greatest community code,
> I decided not to waste a week and start again with
> the new releases.
[...]
Would it have taken a week even just updating rather than restructuring?
Because if so, not only is the overhead likely to be an issue (in cost-conscious
times especially), but the odds of getting in one last update in time for some
{testing, packaging} deadline are that much slimmer. Apparently people want
any given sfw to be as up to date as possible (although I suspect they're not
willing
to give much if anything up on reliability for that). So the time to drop in a
micro
update of any one external element, rebuild everything and recheck that not only
was that one item still working at least as well as before, but nothing
dependent
on it broken either, has to be as short as possible, IMO.
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