On 2012-08-27 23:28, Jonathan M Davis wrote:
Except that the change which is causing Manu problems _isn't_ a new feature. It's a bug fix. So, better versioning wouldn't necessarily have helped him any at all. At best, if we had a more complex versioning scheme, it could be decided that the bug fix was potentially disruptive enough that it should only be fixed in a more major release, but _every_ bug fix risks breaking code, especially when code could be relying on the buggy behavior.
The fix for this particular bug was to remove a language feature. I don't think it would be wise to put that change in a minor release. It doesn't matter why the feature was removed. If a feature is remove from the language it should only be put in a major release, period.
-- /Jacob Carlborg
