On Sunday 15 May 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > * Stefano Lattarini wrote on Sun, May 15, 2011 at 04:10:29PM CEST: > > On Sunday 15 May 2011, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > Well, the point of declaring it experimental is being able to do at > > > least slightly incompatible changes and mostly getting away with it. > > > > > > The changes might not just be needed for portability reasons in the > > > *current* code, but also for newer features in changed code. I'm > > > willing to bet that your SoC project will turn up one or two such > > > situations. > > > Should I revert this patch then? Or should we add a more > > "watered-down" warning in place of the previous "scary" one? > > What was scary about the previous one? I didn't find it scary. > I personally find the words "still experimental" quite scary :-)
And potential users who agree with me on this might end up being scared away from the 'parallel-testsuite' feature, despite its great advantages and indisputable superiority -- which would be pretty sad IMHO. But than again, I might be the only "coward" here that is scared so easily :-) So your call in the end. Regards, Stefano
