Re: Thresholds of backwards compatibility breaks
| From: | Andrea Faulds | Date: | Thu, 06 Nov 2014 02:27:07 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Thresholds of backwards compatibility breaks | ||
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> On 6 Nov 2014, at 02:00, Pierre Joye <pierre.php@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> We have minor BC breaks (new errors. Slight behavior changes due to bug fixes).
>
> But globally no, it makes end users work harder for migration, even worst for distros.
>
> See Debian f.e., they boost the adoption speed now, we finally see some results, within the 2-4
> years plan we had back then. I could not imagine a worst time to rollback what we defined.
>
Ah, you raise a good point there. It’d be a shame if distros stopped shipping new minor versions
of PHP.
Alright then. Perhaps, instead, the solution is more frequent majors, with less BC breaks each.
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Andrea Faulds
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