I felt that for a moment too, then I read up online and saw Stas and the other core developers thoughts as Perrin highlighted below. I'm sure there could have been a million and one ways to delay the change... but they had a real imperative to do it as RC5.
Not to mention -- I'm really glad that we have this all over with, and we have all the new, more logical functionality, now -- as opposed to months or releases down the line. As painful as the impact was, i think the benefits more than make up for it.
Thanks, RC5 Developers.
On Apr 24, 2005, at 12:55 PM, Perrin Harkins wrote:
Jie Gao wrote:I think we all knew this. But rc4 was about the last one before formal release,
and Stas promised since rc2 or something that there would be no API change (I'm
not blaming him on this though).
Yes, please don't blame Stas for this. None of us wanted to make this change, and Stas was especially concerned about the impact on users. It was not done lightly or without consideration for what it would mean to people already running pre-releases.
- Perrin
