Re: Compatibility, and Frustration.

"Sander Striker" <striker@apache.org> writes:

> > From: sussman@collab.net [mailto:sussman@collab.net]
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 8:38 PM
>
> > So let's come up with a written policy and stick to it. Then, when we
> > *do* break compatibility, and someone complains, we can point to the
> > writing. :-)
>
> My vote on the "courtesy upgrade time": 1 release. IOW, keep it backward
> compatible in the release the feature is introduced and drop the backward
> compat in the release that follows. I'm thinking minor releases here, not
> patch releases (and only for as long as major == 0, but we all agree on
> that).

+1 (since, this is basically what I said in an earlier post).

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Received on Wed Mar 12 18:55:19 2003