Il giorno gio, 21/05/2009 alle 14.16 +0200, Markus Hitter ha scritto: > > Well, xorg is based on (or part of) X, which is about 20 years old. > X > was considered to be "mature" for some time, and severly behind a > few > years later. Do you really think there is something like a > "maturity" > which can be reached? If not after 20 years, how long does it take? > 30 years, 50 years? Similar facts apply for the other packages you > mentioned. > > My strong feeling is, reaching maturity is almost like stopping > development, which shouldn't happen. It looks like the key to > success > is to reach a good user experience in constant development, without > ever reaching "task done".
My view of maturity is related to reliability: I should be able to start (the latest stable release of) a new software and trust that it is going to work today, as it worked yesterday. Emacs in ubuntu is a mature program. Until now, it never had "surprises" for me. Xorg may be even older than emacs (I admit I dont know) but Xorg in ubuntu is far from being reliable from a release to another. Each time, surprises may come. This gives an impression of a "young" system and in fact it is, because it is often updated to introduce new features. Vincenzo -- Ubuntu-devel-discuss mailing list Ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel-discuss