On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 16:50 +0200, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> On fre, 2010-01-22 at 14:22 +0000, Simon Riggs wrote:
> > "Stable software" isn't just software that doesn't break, it requires
> > IIABDFI as well.
>
> Yeah, I don't buy that. That would mean that you can never do
> maintenance, refactoring, or polishing. You basically just wait for the
> system to die a death somewhere between unmaintainability and ugliness.
I merely ask that you consider the non-zero cost of such changes as well
as the benefit. Not all change is worthwhile, even if the change can be
made quickly and with little effect on the stability of the software.
-- Simon Riggs www.2ndQuadrant.com