🚀 go-pugleaf

egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
>--In article <1992Apr11.151138.3378@athena.mit.edu> (comp.sys.mac.apps), dks@athena.mit.edu (dks) writes:
>--> In article <1992Apr8.152837.2483@otago.ac.nz> stanger@otago.ac.nz (Nigel Stanger) writes:
>--> >In article <19738@castle.ed.ac.uk> egpv29@castle.ed.ac.uk (JHenderson) writes:
>--> >>For my 2 cents, I think it's pretty piss poor that MacDraw Pro doesn't
>--> >>support Publish and Subscribe. Was it a secret or something? 
>--> >Because they had frozen the feature set for MacDraw Pro before
>--> >they could include any of the System 7.0 features. 
>--> Is this supposed to be an excuse, an explanation, or a definition
>--> of the problem?
>Well whatever it is, it's totally unacceptable.

The problem, of course, is that it's really difficult to ever put out a
product (especially a moderately well-tested, stable product) if you
don't pick some point and freeze the feature set there. If Claris had
delayed MacDraw Pro until Sys7 features could go in and testing be done,
would that be more acceptable? Or would people be bashing Claris for
long delays instead of for leaving out Sys7 features?

What value do you put on availability and stability as opposed to
features?

--John

        so you found a girl who thinks really deep thoughts;
        what's so amazing about really deep thoughts?
                -- Tori Amos, "Silent All These Years", _Little_Earthquakes_

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