From: "Rodney Waldhoff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Stephen Colebourne wrote: > > > The 'line' is the release. Once code is released we have a duty of backwards > > compatability to it. Thats not to say it will never move, but it can only do > > so by deprecating the original. > > I think we should be trying harder than that. > > While we may not *need* to always maintain backward compatiablity with > unreleased code, in the sense that we haven't promised it to anyone, we > should strive to maintain compatiablity anyway. To do otherwise is to > harm our early adopters, and to do that is to harm the project itself.
Although initially I was opposed to this concept re unreleased code, I am now more of a supporter. Currently [collections] contains a lot of code that is deprecated solely for the purpose of nightly builds and a future snapshot. The idea being that it is removed once the ibiblio snapshot has occurred. This seem to produce a reasonable balance of flexibilty for code development with protection for users (and is particularly necessary given the time since the last collections release) Stephen > > Some refactoring occurs because of history - collections was a bundle of > > collections written elsewhere rather than a dedicated, planned re-usable > > component. Collections 3.0 switches from bundle to planned, which does > > involve some deprecation moves. It should be much quiter after collections > > 3.0 (lang was much quiter after 2.0). > > > > Primitives was a special case in that code existed unreleased for so long > > that it became release-like. Hence care has been taken in how it has been > > moved. > > > > Stephen > > > > > > -- > - Rod <http://radio.weblogs.com/0122027/> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
