Re: Shrinking the C core

[Eric S. Raymond]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
> Assuming I understand what you mean by that: we've been burnt in the
> past by people who started working on some grand changes, made
> package-wide preparatory modifications, and then left to greener
> pasture without arriving at any point where those changes have any
> usefulness.

I completely agree that this is a failure mode to be avoided.  Preparatory
changes have to be wortwhile in themselves.
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                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>