Lars Marowsky-Bree wrote:
On 2005-12-05T14:30:09, Bill Davidsen <[email protected]> wrote:
Actually I would be happy with the stability of this series if people
would stop trying to take working features OUT of it!
Features are removed when they are no longer features, but design
irritations in a new and improved design, and usually, equivalent or
better (or at least thought to be) functionality is available still in
the big picture (which includes user-space), hopefully in a cleaner
place.
Now, design is often a holy war, and people disagree. That's fine and to
be expected. And sometimes, the whole solution takes a while to
materialize and be implemented from the kernel up to all user-space and
even longer until it has been implemented in the brains of the admins.
This, too, is fine and expected. It's called "innovation" and
"development", sometimes iterative.
Removing features because there are better solutions is one thing,
although it has been done at kernel tree changes for a decade. Removing
features for reasons of religion is rather a case of developers removing
a useful and unbroken feature for which there is no replacement purely
because someone doesn't like it, or it saves a dozen lines of code.
--
-bill davidsen ([email protected])
"The secret to procrastination is to put things off until the
last possible moment - but no longer" -me
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