Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 00:37:21 +1000 From: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> To: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Cc: Stephen McKay <smckay@internode.on.net> Subject: Re: Doing it right Message-ID: <200403151437.i2FEbLew007813@dungeon.home> In-Reply-To: <xzpy8q2fbec.fsf@dwp.des.no>15:11:23 %2B0100" References: <p060204f5bc750679b827@[128.113.24.47]> <200403140716.i2E7GDKa007204@dungeon.home> <20040315000944.GA93356@xor.obsecurity.org> <200403150134.i2F1Y5ew004366@dungeon.home> <xzpish6gsvn.fsf@dwp.des.no> <200403151348.i2FDmuew007550@dungeon.home> <xzpy8q2fbec.fsf@dwp.des.no>
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On Monday, 15th March 2004, Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?= wrote: >Sorry, but you get zero points for criticizing this decision after the >fact when it had already been discussed to death ... Presumably it was discussed to death on the -sparc list that I don't read. It's easy to miss things. You have to ignore 99% of the stuff that goes by if you want to avoid livelock. I responded to the commit of UPDATING.64BTT, which looked alarming to me. Turns out it isn't. I don't believe it is ever too late to do more thinking about a difficult problem. I've seen plenty of bad ideas pushed through because "we're tired of talking about it now" or because someone wanted "action, not words". >Now, if your message had been something like the following, this >thread might have turned out very differently: > > "Are you planning something similar for i386? In that case, I think > we should place more emphasis on backward compatibility..." So you are basically agreeing with my general premise (criticising technical decisions is a contribution), but didn't like the wording of my initial message? If so, fine. I take care when I write to the lists, but I can't get every nuance perfect. I think Garance read it the way it was intended. If you think that only code (or documentation and other concrete things) is a contribution, then I disagree, and will debate this further. Stephen.
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