Re: BC break in 5.4.29 and 5.5.13
| From: | Pierre Joye | Date: | Tue, 17 Jun 2014 17:24:24 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: BC break in 5.4.29 and 5.5.13 | ||
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On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Ferenc Kovacs <tyra3l@gmail.com> wrote:
> generally BC breaks are not allowed in micro versions, but this doesn't
> mean that we can't change existing behavior in micro versions.
> currently there are 3 cases where we have precedence changing behavior in
> micro versions:
>
> - bugfix
> - changing (explicitly) undefined behavior
> - introducing a new class/function/method/constant (I don't like this,
> but it seems that it is the consensus seems to be that this is okay).
It is definitively not OK. I cannot imagine any feature that cannot
x.y+1, which happens less than a year later.
Cheers,
--
Pierre
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