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Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular
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Jeremy Shaw |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular |
Date: |
Tue, 27 Jan 2004 12:37:09 -0800 |
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[snip]
> That said, it would be very, very painful to change the ordering at this
> point. Most of the code would have to be heavily modified and this would
> cause (for the first time) incompatible archives to exist. The great
> majority of the tla could would need to be changed as well. Saying "this
> would mean tla 2.0" feels like an understatement to me.
>
> Even though I agree with you that the branch/version ordering is wrong,
> I think its just too painful to fix. :(
I always feel this story is important to remember:
<famous-anecdote>
Stuart Feldman, the Bell Labs guy who invented "make", woke up one
morning a few weeks after he'd released it, and realized that the
syntax basically sucked - all those tabs and colons and weird
continuation rules. He started working on something better and was
shot down because someone said "Stuart, there are *dozens* of people
using this, it's too late to change it."
</famous-anecdote>
Jeremy Shaw.
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, (continued)
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, David Allouche, 2004/01/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Mirian Crzig Lennox, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Tom Lord, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Mirian Crzig Lennox, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Mark Thomas, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, James Blackwell, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular,
Jeremy Shaw <=
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Tom Lord, 2004/01/27
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- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Miles Bader, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Tom Lord, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Scott Bronson, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Scott Bronson, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Miles Bader, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Miles Bader, 2004/01/27
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, Mark Thomas, 2004/01/28
- Re: [Gnu-arch-users] Re: Making microbranches popular, James Blackwell, 2004/01/27