On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 03:29:41PM +0100, John Levon wrote: > On Thu, Jul 10, 2003 at 04:21:39PM +0200, Andre Poenitz wrote: > > Now look at what is still to be done and try to figure out how far > > we'd get during out lifetime if every single patch needs two weeks of > > checking. > > Well, argument by exaggeration. > > I'm nervous about the current work because it is modifying unreliable > core code that nobody understands, *and* the tree before the changes was > in a very bad state as well. It's the combination of the two things, not > either one...
Just in case you missed it: The reason of the work is exactly to put the core in a state where it is understandable. > What happens if we end up in a state where we have all the > barely-reproducable bugs from the insettext work, *plus* all the still > broken undo stuff ? The same as happened with the Old New Kernel. What happens if earth collides with a comet? Andre' -- Those who desire to give up Freedom in order to gain Security, will not have, nor do they deserve, either one. (T. Jefferson or B. Franklin or both...)
