On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:35:23 -0800 Manuel McLure <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | Neil Bothwick wrote: | > On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:39:24 -0800, Manuel McLure wrote: | > | > | >>I can't believe I'm reading this. The server is *broken* - not the | >>clients. The fact that you can "work around" the problem is not | >>acceptable. | | It's called "not changing things that people depend on", AKA | "backwards compatibility."
If you want to depend upon undocumented coincidences, that's entirely your affair. Don't complain when things break, however. -- Ciaran McCreesh : Gentoo Developer (Vim, Fluxbox, shell tools) Mail : ciaranm at gentoo.org Web : http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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