And on branching?
On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 14:10, Nicola Ken Barozzi wrote:
> 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]
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