Re: RC5 really broke some stuff

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From: Stas Bekman
Subject: Re: RC5 really broke some stuff
Date: 04:59 on 23 Apr 2005

Jie Gao wrote:
> 
> 
> On Fri, 22 Apr 2005, Carl Johnstone wrote:
> 
> 
>>Date: Fri, 22 Apr 2005 11:02:48 +0100
>>From: Carl Johnstone <modperl@xxxxxxxxxxx.xxxxx.xx.xx>
>>To: modperl@xxxx.xxxxxx.xxx
>>Subject: Re: RC5 really broke some stuff
>>
>>
>>
>>>People like Jonathan and myself just have to double up (or triple-up!)
>>>because of the change. Try telling that to your bosses that the latest
>>>version of modperl is holding things back ('told you we should've used
>>>Java!').
>>
>>Did your boss know that the "latest" version of mod_perl is actually a
>>pre-release?
>>
>>I'll agree that pre-release is a bad time to make API changes like this and
>>it would be better if it'd be done during the beta. It's only when a piece
>>of software is released that the developers are making the implicit promise
>>to not break anything.
>>
>>If you're going to run beta or pre-release code - you've got to accept the
>>risks that go with that.
> 
> 
> I think we all knew this. But rc4 was about the last one before formal release,
> and Stas promised since rc2 or something that there would be no API change (I'm
> not blaming him on this though). I've had rc4 in production for some time, and
> I'll have to keep it possibly for a very long time to come.

Stas promised and kept his promises, until he was overruled by the 
majority of developers who decided to break his promises. But it's a 
history now. What's done is done. Moving on.


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