Re: Call for 7.5 feature completion

Marc G. Fournier wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Matthew T. O'Connor wrote:
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>>I know it's a chicken and egg problem, do we set a date for developers
>>to shoot for, or do shoot for specific features and choose a date from
>>there.  I think there can no hard and fast rule on this, it depends on
>>the feature and the desire to put it in place.
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>If we set the date based on a specific featuer, v7.4 would still be in
>development ...
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And if we always set deadlines independent of the required development 
time, then we may never get a win32 port or any other major feature that 
takes a little more time and attention.