Re: RE: XML_Tree2 vs XML_Tree 2.0.0

On 30 May 2004 at 17:08, Mika Tuupola wrote: > 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 You intend to BC-break a stable package twice a year? Well, then it seems we (?) have a problem of conception. Anyways, this shouldn't be the case (too) often imho. Stefan