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

Greg Hudson wrote:

> 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 don't know whether this will be a genuine problem. All I think is
that 1.0.x should be as compatible as possible. And this is no really
needed fix.

> I think it's not allowed for 1.x either.

Maybe.

> Any user-visible bug raises the spectre of
> "bug-compatibility" (where an external tool relies on the buggy
> behavior).

Some people will call this a bug and others say this is a cosmetic
change that break their tools.

> We have to use our judgement to decide how likely that
> problem will arise in practice.

Correct.

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Received on Tue Mar 23 18:36:07 2004