Re: Display problems with `before-string' in overlay

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 03:14:13 +0200
> > From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <address@hidden>
> > Cc: address@hidden
> >
> > Then what arguments are actually convincing to you?
>
> Did you ever managed release of some software product, Lennart?
> Because if you didn't, then there's really no way we could convince
> you, since you lack a significant experience of having to decide what
> needs to be fixed before the release and what's after it.

Of course experience is good. Did I ever say something else? Or why did 
you say the above?


> > I know that both Kim and Chong hesitate to do the changes now. My 
> > argument is not that I do not trust them. I try to look at the actual 
> > changes and estimate the chances that it can go wrong.
>
> This estimation on the one hand, and the estimated seriousness of the
> bug on the other, is the fundamental issue.

We are getting closer to a serious discussion, thanks.

> If you cannot see how the
> former is much larger than the latter, then we have no real basis for
> a reasonable discussion.

And now you are leaving it again.

> That's because everyone else but you look at this issue at a
> fundamentally different level.  You look at the details, but no amount
> of details will ever lead you to the bigger picture--that we need to
> release soon, and that Emacs is ready for that.

And now you have left it totally. Instead of asking me you say that I am 
thinking in a certain way. If you discuss that way you will always "win" 
a discussion.

If you please separate my opinion from my arguments it will be much nicer.