On Dec 5, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Jeremy Quinn wrote:
I have just been working on an established project that is built from 2.2 and I could see the advantages of the new platform.
Yeah, it's awesome.
However, many perceive 2.2 as almost unusable.
Well, it is nearly unusable, but I guess that will change very soon. This is why it's not been released yet :-)
It clearly is being used but the procedures are very different from 2.1 ..... the results can be completely unpredictable ..... it will compile one minute and not the next, this is very off-putting. If the less experienced developers like myself cannot feel confidant with the build system for 2.2 what hope do we have of users embracing it?
My point would be, don't assume that "nearly unusable" implies a great gap to be crossed to reach "fully usable". My impression is that trunk isn't pervasively unstable, it's just unstable at a few key points, and those are being ironed out by the people who also know how to work around, etc. and also how to just plain use the frigging thing without any documention. So trunk right now is like riding a wild bear, and there's only a few people who know how to ride the bear. Two things to do: (1) tame the bear, and (2) teach ordinary people how to ride a tame bear!
This is my observation as a relative outsider, i.e. non-wild-bear-rider. My impression is that (1) is very close. I'm trying to learn now (even though the bear is still a little bit wild), so that I can help with (2).
—ml—
