On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 22:24:42 +0100, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: > The immediate question, of course, is what we should do for 2.5, but > I think the arguments above apply at whatever time, the only > question is of the relative balance between urgency and risk.
What are the benefits of having witnesses enabled in branch-2.5 (as opposed to say the HEAD branch as soon as possible?) Is it mainly that Darcs ecosystem authors can target something stable with witnesses as soon as possible? Just seeing if this code making it to stable is itself urgent or if by urgency we're mostly just talking about Darcs hackers. I remember that in the early days, I advocated a very slow approach to switching from make to Cabal, which I now think of as being a mistake. Don't know if it's the same situation here, but it seems like there are certain kinds of work where delays cause way too much pain to be worthwhile (particular in the Cabal case, where we were maintaining two separate tracks of work)... so stuff like this makes me nuance my general slowly-slowly attitude. -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> For a faster response, please try +44 (0)1273 64 2905.
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