Re: RC5 really broke some stuff

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From: Jie Gao
Subject: Re: RC5 really broke some stuff
Date: 02:21 on 23 Apr 2005



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.

Regards,


Jie

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