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Newsgroups: mozilla.dev.planning
From: Benjamin Smedberg <benja...@smedbergs.us>
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:24:45 -0400
Local: Mon, Apr 24 2006 5:24 pm
Subject: Re: Places and Firefox 2
Mike Shaver wrote: I didn't say that... I said "shipping things that we're not also going to > I do not at all agree with the idea of not shipping things until > they're frozen. We have a terrible record of "predictive" API design, > and not many groups have good ones. use internally". There is a much higher incentive to keep backwards compatibility or provide compatibility workarounds as the code matures if we are using the code internally and it's "our problem". > "should be supporting" isn't as interesting as "will support", and for Sure, and expediency is a fine plan if you actually are planning on using > Fx2 our answer will likely be "don't" or "at your own peril; > synchronize out of band". the feature, which was the general agreement six months ago when we decided that we didn't have time to think about multi-process SQLite access for FF2. But (modulo local-storage APIs) we don't have to bite that bullet, which gives us the extra 3-6 months before FF3 closes to see if we can come up with a good sharing solution before we're committed to a file format, locking pattern, and API. --BDS You must Sign in before you can post messages.
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