Imagine IBM paying engineers to maintain an smalltalk application during like 10 years, and I still find some really ugly bugs hehe
On 23 August 2011 14:12, Stéphane Ducasse <[email protected]> wrote: > Don't feel guilty :) > But send fixes so that we can collect them for a given version. > > And we will not get perfect systems. Imagine IBM payed during several year > 100 engineers to build eclipse > and so far we got one engineer 8 months. > > Stef > > > On Aug 23, 2011, at 9:57 AM, Lukas Renggli wrote: > > >>> Now I think the subliminal message of this thread is that the Pharo > >>> community should focus on making the existing images really stable > >>> before hacking away on Pharo 1.4 and beyond ... :-) > >> > >> And we need more people actually looking at the bug tracker... I > sometimes > >> feel a bit lonely... > > > > Yes, I feel guilty of not being able to contribute more fixes. You are > > doing the excellent job of integrating submitted patches > > instantaneous. > > > > The problem is that the unstable versions are pushed extremely hard, > > while the supposedly stable versions are still unstable. I don't see > > how this can possibly work? > > > > Subsequently, I hesitate to submit a patch for an old version because > > I know it won't be possible to merge it into newer versions. This is a > > vicious circle. > > > > Lukas > > > > -- > > Lukas Renggli > > www.lukas-renggli.ch > > > > >
