In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen McKay writes
:
>On Friday, 10th December 1999, Mike Smith wrote:
>
>>The same mentality that made the CAM cutover a "debacle" is making the
>>ata cutover a "debacle".
First of all, "core" is not really involved in this per se.
>It might be that these things have to be
>predicted by -core and handled "touchy feely" like:
>
>core: What if we do this <decisive break with past> ?
>public: Um, sounds scary. When will you do it? Will I lose anything?
>core: We think a month from now, and you will lose support for <x> and <y>.
>public: We don't use <x> and <y> any more, so fine.
So far, whenever this has been tried, the public reponse have been:
public: We don't want to change anything, ever! It's so hard!
You must support all my hardware for ever and ever!
>instead of the current (caricatured for emphasis):
>
>core: We will do <decisive break with past> soon. Probably today.
>public: Oh my God!
>core: It's for your own good. You always complain and make it difficult!
>public: We don't want to change anything, ever! It's so hard! You must
> support all my hardware for ever and ever!
I'm sure you will notice the similarity.
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