Hello! On Mon, Sep 17, 2007 at 09:30:04PM +0200, Richard B. Kreckel wrote:
A simple proposal: let's not care about release 1.3 so much. It is a waste of time now that 1.4 is out.
Frankly, I'm not going to switch to 1.4 anytime soon, so I do care about 1.3. In general, I don't like to upgrade unless there is a compelling reason to do so (e.g. new version is 2x faster, or has some feature I need very much, etc).
If there's some really serious issue with 1.3 we can fix it for the 1.3 branch,
I think this particular regression is pretty serious.
but only as long as it is still in use by people out there.
There is at least 1 user :) People don't like to upgrade (especially if their code breaks, gets substantially slower, etc), so I think there will be more.
But making an effort to backport as much as possible appears pointless to me.
Actually, [almost] all patches for 1.4 (and HEAD) I've submitted were forward ported (in most cases porting boils down to git-cherry-pick). Best regards, Alexei -- All science is either physics or stamp collecting.