Ash Berlin wrote:
> Matt S Trout wrote:
>> Nilson Santos Figueiredo Junior wrote:
>>   
>>>> Hey, not complaining - but it *was* a dev release from the -current and it
>>>> won't go to trunk and thence CPAN until we've fixed it.
>>>>       
>>> Yes, yes. But I thought that a release was emminent and then "OMG the
>>> app doesn't work" panic bells started ringing all over my head. And
>>> I'm *really* glad you'll be fixing it, even though it's not a
>>> supported API (honestly, I didn't really know it was an unsupported
>>> hack when you told me to use it - I assumed I had just overlooked the
>>> docs or something like that).
>>>     
>> I thought I said "this probably works but it should be documented and 
>> tested". 
>> Generally that means "it's unsupported unless you write said docs and tests" 
>> :)
>>
>> One "OMG the app doesn't work" error is enough to block a DBIC release - 
>> hence 
>> why we tend to take a few dev releases before we bother marking one RC 
>> quality.
>>
>> This is a complete pain in the ass and I take no pleasure whatsoever in the 
>> amount of fucking about that results for the maints. But this thing talks to 
>> you guys' production databases and quite a few of our clients' as well, so 
>> it's not like we have an alternative.
>>
>> ( <whimper>wonder if there's anybody left that remembers this was originally 
>> intended to be a sodding research project</whimper> ... :)
>>
>>   
> See the problem there is you actually made it usable and better than the 
> alternatives ;)

And thank goodness for that!
-=Chris

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