Re: Re: IT[X] status update and a reminder
| From: | Martin Jansen | Date: | Sun, 23 Feb 2003 17:52:30 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: IT[X] status update and a reminder | ||
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On Sun Feb 23, 2003 at 06:4615PM +0100, Arnaud Limbourg wrote:
> As i see it breaking BC would not be nice for users.
The rule for such cases is, that the BC-breakage is announced in the
release notes and that the major version number is incremented, if the
BC-breaking changes are big.
> If the pear installer managed branches that could work but what you report are not bugs but
> expected behaviour because of design choices. Whether those choices were good ot bad is another
> point.
If you need branches for development, just use CVS branches. Introducing
branches in the PEAR packager is pure overhead IMO.
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