Re: svn commit: r9105 - branches/1.0.x

On Tue, 2004-03-23 at 11:34, makl wrote:
> Greg Hudson wrote:
> > I think it's pretty clearly a bugfix. (And easily a simple enough one
> > for 1.0.x, since it's a two-line change.)
>
> But you will break all programs that parse the output and rely on the
> backslash. This is in my opinion not allowed for 1.0.x.

If we think this is going to be a genuine problem, I think it's not
allowed for 1.x either. Any user-visible bug raises the spectre of
"bug-compatibility" (where an external tool relies on the buggy
behavior). We have to use our judgement to decide how likely that
problem will arise in practice.

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Received on Tue Mar 23 17:53:00 2004