Re: RE: XML_Tree2 vs XML_Tree 2.0.0
| From: | Mika Tuupola | Date: | Sun, 30 May 2004 14:08:08 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: RE: XML_Tree2 vs XML_Tree 2.0.0 | ||
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On Sun, 30 May 2004, Adam [iso-8859-2] Go³êbiowski wrote:
> IMO such a versioning policy is not a good thing. What will happen in
> next few years? We will have package Foo, Foo2, Foo3 through FooX just
> because it was actively developed.
..
> Do you really plan to maintain XML_Tree after XML_Tree2 is relased? Even
> if so, for how long? How many releases will there be? One, maybe two
> that contain only bugfixes? And then what? XML_Tree will cover with
> dust.
My thoughts exactly. And when developer fixes a bug in Foo_Bar2
which breaks bc the bugfixed version will become Foo_Bar3.
A good example of such bug would have been XML_Tree's
http://pear.php.net/bugs/bug.php?id=89
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Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/