7 Dec
2012
7 Dec
'12
8:50 a.m.
Excerpts from Michael Snoyman's message of Fri Dec 07 00:29:14 -0800 2012:
Let me give a more extreme example: suppose that the bug in text hadn't simply been slower compile times, but instead it segfaulted every time you appended two empty strings. What would be our response to users? Should we tell them to stick with the current HP until the next one is released, and hope they don't trigger the bug? Should they try and convince their whole system to get rebuilt?
I think the pragmatic solution here is to roll a platform point-release, just fixing the particular major bug. Edward