From: Michal Suchanek <hramrach@...>
Date: 2009-02-12T10:14:27+09:00
Subject: Re: If you are unhappy with the direction of Ruby 1.8.7+, respond

On 11/02/2009, Urabe Shyouhei <shyouhei@ruby-lang.org> wrote:
> M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:
>
> >    All other versions are irrelevant and a waste of precious developer
>  >    energy as far as I'm concerned.
>
>
> But what if they want to waste their energy there?
>
>  To maintain an old piece of crap like MRI cannot be nothing but boring.  Every
>  precious developers you can think of is precious just because he/she can create
>  a bright new idea. No one wants to nurse a dead-ended product.

That's completely fine but then mark the bright new idea as such, not
as a version of a dead-end product. It will do good service to both
the bright new idea and the dead-end product if they are labeled
correctly.

Thanks

Michal