Okay, that makes sense. Build 1471 will be a transition build to avoid feature creep, and we'll need a build of WoT that includes db4o for 1472.
- Steve On Wed, Oct 28, 2015, 7:20 AM Ximin Luo <[email protected]> wrote: > On 28/10/15 10:51, Florent Daigniere wrote: > > On Tue, 2015-10-27 at 21:47 +0100, Arne Babenhauserheide wrote: > >> Am Sonntag, 25. Oktober 2015, 15:13:06 schrieb Matthew Toseland: > >>> I disagree. We should take reasonable steps to avoid breaking > >>> unofficial > >>> plugins, but we shouldn't let it cripple us. We are not Microsoft. > >>> And > >>> db4o is unmaintained upstream... > >> > >> Let’s avoid doing another “hey, we’re growing again, how about > >> breaking people’s setup?” ← we already did that a few times. It was > >> pretty frustrating. > >> > >> There’s no gain from removing db4o except for ideological pureness, > >> which has no value for our users. > >> > > > > More software -> more maintenance burden -> more bugs -> less time > > spent on fixing things users actually use. > > > > What's the part you don't understand? > > > > Right now, keeping db4o means headaches with packaging and build-system > > integration. It's one of the few dependencies we have that uses > > Maven... > > > > Nobody is happy with it; the ideology purists, the packagers nor the > > people who actually use it (xor's plugins). They all want change > > (removal or upgrade depending on who you ask); unless you volunteer to > > handle the actual changes, I'm not sure I understand why you'd get a > > vote on what will happen. > > > > FWIW scrapping db4o will also help the debian package actually enter > Debian at some point - it's one less dependency to have to bundle (and > argue with the FTP masters about). > > X > > -- > GPG: 4096R/1318EFAC5FBBDBCE > git://github.com/infinity0/pubkeys.git > _______________________________________________ > Devl mailing list > [email protected] > https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl _______________________________________________ Devl mailing list [email protected] https://emu.freenetproject.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/devl
