From: "Andrew C. Oliver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Marc/Glen/Rainer/Nicola/Ryan/et al:
>
> Okay with that in mind should the named ranges patch go in 1.5 or have
> to wait until 2.0?
> (http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=8114)
>
> The issues:
>
> * Its somewhat new and hasn't been in a development release yet, so we'd
> have to do another first.
>
> * Secondly it depends on PTGs which will have to be drastically
> refactored because of my upcoming perspective on formulas which won't be
> in this release.
>
> However:
>
> * This is an important feature and I believe the developers who
> submitted it are committed to seeing it through. (So I think it passes
> from that perspective) and are improving the javadoc to get it up to
> spec as we speak.
>
> I realize its a little late but is it too late to make 1.5 or can we
> sneak it in yet still maintain good quality?
>
> If not should it maybe go in disabled (like existing formula support --
> which dates back to around October) and require special compilation?
-1
We had already voted for a release with the current functionality.
Good quality never comes out of speed.
If someone needs that functionality, he can always get the CVS version, the
patches and whatever; there is no need for us to endorse hasty
functionality.
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Nicola Ken Barozzi [EMAIL PROTECTED]
- verba volant, scripta manent -
(discussions get forgotten, just code remains)
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