> Joseph Kowalski wrote: > > >From David Korn, as referenced by Garrett, forwarded by Roland. > > > I expect that the new features are subject to change > > based on feedback (bugs and ideas). Once there has > > been enough feedback that I feel comfortable I remove the - > > suffix. > > > That sounds like a resounding "yes" - new features can be altered > in the "t-" to "t" transition. > > (BTW: I wouldn't expect it to be any other way. We make the > same allowance for Beta releases. We just shouldn't be placing > components with Beta [non-]guarantees in potentially FCS > products.)
Note that this is a general statement. To check "yes" for _this_ case covering ksh93 version "t-", "t" and "t+" two things must be "true": 1. We need a good idea for adding new stuff (we don't have such a thing right now, nearly all effort mainly goes into the new type system, bugfixing and hunting down global variables as preparation for thread support etc. and the contentious thing - the "enum" builtin - was the _first_ one since 15 years) 2. Somehow magically a large chunk of "free time" needs to fall out of the heaven, crawl out of hell or is somehow else put into existance (Sauron's ring is unfortunately lost... ;-( ) Since neither [1] or [2] are true we can mark the "no" checkbox for this time and move along, right ? ---- Bye, Roland -- __ . . __ (o.\ \/ /.o) roland.mainz at nrubsig.org \__\/\/__/ MPEG specialist, C&&JAVA&&Sun&&Unix programmer /O /==\ O\ TEL +49 641 7950090 (;O/ \/ \O;)
