Re: [boost] [git] [conversion] Schedule and remaining showstoppers?

Subject: Re: [boost] [git] [conversion] Schedule and remaining showstoppers?
From: Robert Ramey (ramey_at_[hidden])
Date: 2013-10-16 12:42:22

Daniel Pfeifer wrote:
It's the hideous complexity of doing a perfect conversion, not
>>> specific issues.
>>>
>>
>> We are not trying to do a perfect conversion. We are trying to do a
>> reasonably good conversion and then move on.
>
> I think we had a reasonably good conversion at BoostCon 2012.
> Our approach was rejected by the community so we started a new
> approach, this time aiming for perfect conversion.

The enemy of improvement is the insistence on perfection.

Irrelevant question:Will the new system be perfect?

Simple question #1: Will we be better off converting than we are now?
Simple question #2: Will the improvement be worth the cost in pain an 
suffering?

Robert Ramey