Re: Freeze break request: Some API additions

[Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com>]

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 19:15 -0500, Luis Villa wrote:
> Murray, is there anyone else appropriate on the team right now to
> approve this?

Some one else who has designed an API in a high-level language, I
suppose.

>  Everything seems in place, but I'm clearly not the right
> one to be giving a thumbs up/down on this...
> Luis
> 
> 
> On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 00:39:13 +0100, Murray Cumming <murrayc murrayc com> wrote:
> > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:34 +0100, Torsten Schoenfeld wrote:
> > > On Tue, 2005-02-08 at 00:21 +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
> > >
> > > > > Of course, all of the above will be tested as part of our test suites.
> > > >
> > > > Which of these can not wait for 2.11/12?
> > >
> > > Well, *technically* they could all wait for the next cycle.  But it
> > > would be really tragic if our users weren't able to use those methods
> > > for half a year just because we were blind or the lacked the time to
> > > implement them.
> > >
> > > > These additions will not disturb existing applications, but I worry
> > > > that you don't have time to check that the API is correct before it's
> > > > really frozen.
> > >
> > > I think that's unfounded because we have tests (included in the patches)
> > > for every change that ensure that they all do exactly what they're
> > > supposed to do.
> > 
> > You can never be sure that you've tested everything, but that's far more
> > than I expected, so here's 1 of 2 approvals. Thanks for being careful.
> > 
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