Re: 6.0 And Moving Forward
| From: | Kris Craig | Date: | Wed, 18 Jul 2012 19:27:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: 6.0 And Moving Forward | ||
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On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Andrew Faulds <ajfweb@googlemail.com>wrote:
> Kris, I'd love to break BC a lot and fix things, but it would seriously
> slow adoption. Fixing *bugs* has stopped people upgrading, imagine how they
> would react to non-bugs being changed.
>
>
I agree with your point. I guess my thinking is that this is an
unavoidable cost of progress, at least on a major version change. Given
that the alternative is an increasingly stagnated codebase, IMHO the cost
of slower adoption would be the "lesser of two evils."
--Kris