Need feedback on simple idea

Stephen Pair stephen at pairhome.net
Fri Apr 11 03:12:39 UTC 2003


Frank Sergeant wrote:

>And, VW added name spaces and look what it achieved.  VW 3.x had the
>refactoring browser.  That was thrown away in the move to VW 5.xx
>because the addition of name spaces meant the refactoring browser no
>longer worked in 5.xx.  For *years* VW did without the refactoring
>browser.  Dolphin even had the refactoring browser before VW once again
>had it working.  I gather many people refused to upgrade from VW 3.x to
>later versions because of the missing refactoring browser (the one that
>was *thrown away* due to VW adding name spaces (in case I was being too
>subtle and circumspect in making my point)).  
>
You're absolutely right, we should just stop changing things.

- Stephen




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