On 09.03.2006, at 21:15, Lic. Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
I could do not send the "offensive" mail and maybe pass a long time until this trivial bug was discovered and fixed.
Yes. So do you propose everyone should now start to write mails in your style? Will this improve the time it takes to have bugs fixed or will this make everyone just leave the community?
By the way , in previous image say hex was deprecated for Integer, was is a inconsistent if still exist in Character and others classes, all hex should go deprecated or Integer hex resurrected.
Yes, it was deprecated in 3.8 And we remove deprecated method *by default* one version later.
So the whole problem was not caused done by the 3.9a release team. It was a side effect that would habe happened regardless of the person doing 3.9a.
So after removing deprecations, Of course, it can happen that then we find out that in some cases, we should retain the deprecated methods another release, or that the deprecation was actually a bad idea. This could well be the case with #hex.
I vote for hex resurrected.
So why didn't you write a mail that explained that nicely? Yes, it takes a long time to get changes in the release. But this is not the fault of those few who are crazy enough to try to improve Squeak... so I don't see how making those few feel miserable will help getting fixes accepted faster.
Maybe I should just stop... in the end, what use it all that work? It's only making everyones live harder. We should have declared Squeak to be "untouchable" with 3.5, closed the project and moved on.
Marcus