On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 7:19 AM, Marcus Denker <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:33 PM, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> stepharo wrote >> > Could you stop crying because this is a bit boring? >> >> Could you address my policy suggestion instead of crying? ;) > > > For two of the issues, the change in iteraction was an unwanted side > effect. > Both where retracted. > > The third (sender of) happened the following: opening the browser on a > single method > was broken for a while, and it tool some effort to fix. While cursing this > fact, I thought > that this idea of opening a different tool with no way of knowing > beforehand which one > will open was never a good idea and that I always wanted to get rid of it. > > So I changed this to be able to work (the other bug was fixed some weeks > later, too), > and was thinking that if people would really not be able to life with that > they would tell... > Yours is the first comment about it. > > In general, the idea of "you have to ask and get the ok from the list for > every change" > is dangerous... the Smalltalk people are *extremely* conservative. If you > ask, the only > answer will be "NO". Smalltalk is perfect. There is nothing to improve. > And even the bad > things: people use the for decades. If we want change, it will be hard... > Such a prejudiced mischaracterisation! Marcus, listen to yourself. Please, look into your heart and rethink this. > > Keep in mind that you can find a reason to *not* do something for > *anything*. > > > Marcus > > > -- > Marcus Denker -- [email protected] > http://www.marcusdenker.de > -- best, Eliot
