On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 03:58:10PM +0200, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
In the end, making the pile of problems shrink requires working on
the
pile of problems. That does not mean you can not deploy over multiple vms,
but if you take the fact you can deploy over multiple vms as an excuse not
to work on the basic problems you're in for rude awakenings. Splitting is
easy. Merging is hard. And merging always happens someday. The winning
long-term strategy is to work as much as possible as if you have a single
baseline, and keep bundling as a last-ditch temporary workaround.
Okay, this I follow much better. But, I simply disagree that this is the
winning long-term strategy, because the actual impact isn't that everything
is merged into a perfect whole, but that the perfect whole is missing
important pieces and everyone else is over doing something else where that
stuff just works.
This disagreement is a reasonable one, and I think it roughly falls into
what is classically called "The Right Thing" vs. "Worse is Better". I
think
we agree that the same basic things are important, just disagree about their
ordering. I think that the approach where we get things in and then work to
improve them where possible is the one with better long term prospects.
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