Re: Compatibility, and Frustration.

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

Yes. (That's what I thought we had been using, actually.)

0.20 will be compatible with 0.19, and 0.19 with 0.18. But 0.20 won't
*necessarily* be compatible with 0.18.

I think that strikes a good balance between courtesy and compatibility
overhead in a pre-1.0 program. And I see that everyone and their
cousin has already +1'd this :-). I'll add a note to HACKING.

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Received on Wed Mar 12 21:29:40 2003