On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 1:13 AM, Sean Corfield <seancorfi...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 2, 2011 at 7:25 PM, Brian Marick <mar...@exampler.com> wrote: >> I'm not sure yet how to navigate the transition to 1.3 while retaining >> backwards compatibility.
At World Singles we moved to 1.3 pretty much as a matter of course, mostly because I'm used to "planning for the future" and trying to work with (b)leading edge builds. When I was at Macromedia, I pushed hard for us to take prerelease versions of our own products live so that we could get early real world feedback on them. Since then I've always tried to work with the latest version of tools because that brings both the best set of features as well as allowing more influence and more input on tools - and the feedback is useful to the projects. The biggest problem has been 3rd party libraries being slower to move to 1.3. I was pleased to see Chas Emerick's tweet about this recently, because he's working hard to ensure all the libraries referenced in his book are all up to date. At World Singles, we're using CongoMongo and I approached that team and they were very open about changes to enable it to run on 1.2 and 1.3. More recently we wanted to use clojure-csv and, again, the folks behind that were keen to get compatible with 1.3. Both libraries are working great for us on 1.3 now. Overall, whilst there's clearly going to be a lot of churn getting everyone up to 1.3, I think it's still early in Clojure's cycle and we should all be a bit more aggressive about getting on to the latest version. -- Sean A Corfield -- (904) 302-SEAN An Architect's View -- http://corfield.org/ World Singles, LLC. -- http://worldsingles.com/ Railo Technologies, Inc. -- http://www.getrailo.com/ "Perfection is the enemy of the good." -- Gustave Flaubert, French realist novelist (1821-1880) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
