Re: an HTML_Template_IT[X] fork is available

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 01:10:32 +0300 Alexey Borzov <borz_off@cs.msu.su> wrote: > Christian Dickmann wrote: > > We don't have to prove, that your new package breaks BC, > > you have to prove, that it does not! > > This is a *perfect* example of faulty logic. > > Consider: I don't have to prove that the world was created just > yesterday by The Great Almighty Foobar. You have to prove that it was not! The earth has existed for longer than a day, otherwise I wouldn´t be turning 30 by the end of this year (sigh). The majority of people living on earth are under the impression that they are older than one day. As you represent the minority of one-day-believers and deliver a theory that´s brand-new, it´s your turn to prove all the people who are older than one day wrong. To go back on topic: IT[X] is a package that is used in countless application, some that have been around for years. The old version has a majority of users behind it who will claim that it works with their apps. Therefore, it´s again your turn to prove that the new theory is true. Post a link to your class, please. I will test it with one of my apps and tell you the outcome. But as I don´t use the more sophisticated features of IT[X], that still doesn´t prove a thing. You´ll need more and you can´t possibly know and test all apps that use it. A dilemma. On the other hand, proof is not really the point here - any application developer is free to keep using the old version. And if that works for him, why shouldn´t he? I tend to bundle a specific version of PEAR classes with my apps anyway to prevent some system administrator to break my app by upgrading to a newer PEAR version that will break BC - and I would advise any other developer to do the same. Regards, Markus -- Markus Wolff <wolff@21st.de>