On Saturday 11 October 2008, Robert Hancock wrote: > Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: > >> Sorry, but I just have to ask 'why'? IDE is seeing a whole lot of churn > >> for something that should essentially be a stable code base in > >> maintenance mode, and now scalability improvements? > > > > It is the stable code but being in "maintenance only mode" has never > > been true and as long as there are active users & developers there is > > really no reason to change it. > > Are there really many active users at this point? I'm not aware of any > new distributions that are using it. The only people I can see that > might still want to be using it would be people with old setups or old > embedded devices.. many of those wouldn't be using newer kernels anyway. Like I said before: as long as there are any active users/developers there is no real reason to stop IDE improvements (especially since there is no complete replacement available). I also wouldn't worry that much about what some distros are doing. They are free to make their own decisions based on whatever criteria they like. > These kinds of changes only will really help scalability on multi-core > machines which are unlikely to be using this code anyway.. They seem >From my perspective the main gain of these patches is the increased maintainability and sanity of the code, scalability improvements are just an added bonus. > rather like putting makeup on a corpse to me.. Please refrain from such comments. Not only the metaphor is completely bogus but it may sound disrespectful to some IDE developers. Thanks, Bart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
