On Thursday, 13 March 2014 at 10:19:09 UTC, Andrej Mitrovic wrote:
Another important point to make: If client A says a specific
changeset
was bad, what gives client A priority over client B who says
the same
changeset is good? These clients need to communicate directly
with
the community and the developers via the forums and by filing
bugs/enhancement reports.
I believe clients (why are we calling them "clients" anyway?)
should
have to provide reasonable arguments for preferring one feature
over
another, beyond the simple "we're using D therefore we're
important"
argument.
Just to be clear, I never had a "preferred" implementation, nor I
would ever "lobby" for one as it's not in the best interest of
anybody.
Consider me a fan of breaking the code if it improves features,
security and what not.
The only thing I'm asking for is for it to be transparent: a
point in the changelog and keeping the old one as deprecated for
a reasonable amount of time, that's all.
A bug was not filed as it didn't look like a bug but a design
choice (undocumented).
If reporting it directly to Walter Bright was the wrong thing to
do, my apologies, but we surely didn't have any hidden "agenda"
here.
Thanks
Daniele
