On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, D'Arcy J.M. Cain wrote:
> Perhaps but let me point out a few things.
>
> - The code wasn't that late. Other things were holding up release
> and the inet/cidr stuff was in by the drop dead date we were given
> at the time.
No disagreement on that from here...
> - Because of a few late night coding sessions we now have a really
> cool feature and we beat the market. That's something we can use in
> our announcement. Putting this feature in, even if we pushed the
> deadline a little, didn't weaken the product, it strengthened it.
No disagreement here either...to a certain extent. What we shoudl
have done was followed our original release schedualed and looked at
getting the INET/CIDR stuff into v6.5 instead. But, hindsight is 20/20
and its in now...
Marc G. Fournier
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org
