On 02-Dec-01,* Matt*, of Planet Eros, wrote these Wise Words:
> Nobody commits to any dates since commitments can always be broken.
Too true... on all platforms... BUT, I fear that is just the way
of the world when it comes to programming. The "fixes" you mention
below, take 100 times to perfect compared to the time to rough in
the concept.
I would bet that even (Hiss, Hiss...) Microsoft in its development
of its various versions of Windows, found the same problem.
I remember trying to learn basic and machine code back in the days
of the Commodore 64... I would get the "rough" program working "ok"
in a couple of days, and was still trying to get it to do exactly
what I envisioned THREE MONTHS OR MORE later. In fact, half a dozen
projects were never finished, even after a year of mucking around.
I don't think I ever got a machine code program to work right,
and gave that up as a lost cause. And, they were small... less
than 1-2k in size at the largest, and very simple ideas as well.
I just kind of lost heart when I couldn't "get 'em right". I am just
glad that guys like Olli have more tenacity than I did!!! They keep
at it year after year. I totally admire them!!!
> But Voyager is in feature-freeze right now - no major rewrites (such
> as that with the download window), only fixes to things like list
> support, completion of JS objects etc. will be attempted.
This last seems like a real bear for all the Amiga browser
authors... Must be a Mother of a complex problem!!!!!
> In fact Voyager has just gotten some major stability improvements,
THAT is a BIG thing!!!!!!!
> the fact that only small numbers of changes hit the commit log
> doesn't mean they were 5 minute jobs, things like this take time.
Probably more like 5 week jobs, from the sound of it.
> "Slowing down" in fact means people are working for longer on more
> complex problems, instead of making the quick, numerous fixes as
> before.
As I/you said. Those are the hard buggers!
> I'm going back to work on some things in earnest next week,
Yea!!!!!!
> so you'll see a lot of slightly inane, seemingly useless bugfixes
> you can all dispute and complain about the reasons for them before
> long.
And, you are so correct. I think I will manage to keep my trap
shut in the process.
Once again, thanks to you and the others for being determined
enough to keep at it in the face of all the thoughtless
criticism. Remember, it is easy to criticize, but hard to come
up with constructive ideas. Most people tend to whine LONG before
they think... : ))))
Gil
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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Gil Knutson's Pride and Joy ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
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