On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 01:46:27PM -0500, Michael Lucas wrote: > > I'm questing wether we still should bring new shit in. The number of bugs we > > found recently is scary, and the new shit needs serious testing. And adding > > _more_ features is for sure not helpfull. > > As a user, please: stability and correctness before new cool stuff.
We've been making a lot of larger changes in the past weeks, and we'll need time to test them carefully, I agree. But you can't measure the added complexity of a patch by counting its lines. This particular change would only modify a handful of lines of code that executes when the new feature is not used. It's easily verified that it doesn't break existing functionality. And verifying that has the highest priority. Yes, the newly added code is larger, but the point is that it's only executed when you actually use the address tables. If it makes it into the next release, even the worst bugs in the new code don't bite you if you're not using the new feature. It's hard to explain, but the skip step calculation change (which was only 40 lines or so) was more delicate than this patch would be. We'll have to discuss it, I guess :) Daniel
