Re: 2.2 missing features

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 19 Oct 1998 00:43:38 +0100 (BST)

> > In future it would be useful to adopt a policy to never accept changes for
> > 2.0 unless 2.1 has the equivalent bug fix/change
>
> Agreed. I know some very nice features that didn't make it into 2.1
> because the authors were "doing [their] development on 2.0 and don't
> want to deal with 2.1 as well". This is the tail wagging the dog,
> folks.

They are doing the work. You can choose between them working on 2.0.x or
working on NT. If you think the work should be done on 2.1.x as well then
put up the money or provide the additional staff to the companies and
groups working on such code. Otherwise quite frankly you don't have a leg
to stand on

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