On Apr 22, 2010, at 5:58 PM, Mark Miller wrote: > Well yes - throwing out stable releases and back compat is going to be much > more easy to maintain, but I think that's besides the point... > > Handling our current back compat policy is not something most have wanted to > do for long either - that's never been a reason for tossing it. > > I agree with back porting as necessary, as long as necessary means every > change that doesn't make sense to only go into unstable. > >>> Besides, it is essentially what we do now, minus back compat. maintenance >>> on trunk. > > Exactly - it essentially amounts to just throwing out back compat to a large > degree. Stable will be a joke - its just the last trunk release - no > different than what we do now, but we abandon back compat. That's a huge > mistake IMO.
Yeah, I don't intend to throw out back compat. I guess I wasn't understanding. Must have been from reading 1000 replies on this since yesterday. -Grant --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
