On Mon, 17 May 2004, Andi Gutmans wrote: > This is why I allowed important features in despite the feature freeze. > However, it doesn't mean that unimportant stuff should go in as much as > people want because otherwise we can't make a good release. I don't think > open-source is about adding every single feature at any single point of > time. The result would be horrible instability (not that I think your patch > fits into this category I'm just saying that even open-source projects need > some care).
I never said that open source is about adding every single feature. My comment was restricted to Sara's reply about my patch being buggy on certain versions of bison. > Anyway, due to your patch being pretty much self-contained I thought it > wouldn't be a big deal to introduce it. However, thinking it over, I don't > think it's a crucial enough patch to force it in. I doubt you see it this > way too. What's another 3-4 months going to do? People managed without it > up to now. I've gotten some pretty strong responses about this patch being a very useful one. - Andrei -- PHP Internals - PHP Runtime Development Mailing List To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
