Re: Mozilla xpcom VS. NS6.0 xpcom

[Braden McDaniel]

In article <20010116105404.A745@andrew>, "Ari Heitner"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> *yes*: don't sweat it. forcing implementers to freeze interfaces once
> the
> magic ship-date has arrived, and then to support both old interfaces and
> any new ones added later ... is one of the worst lies perpetrated by
> Booch/Grady/Gamma/etc...

The "lie" is the insistence on thinking in terms of "versions" of the
same product line, where in fact a new product line is appropriate.

> Multiple simultaneously installed versions (i.e. major version numbers
> on shared libraries) are key :)

Such schemes simply disguise a lack of imagination for a new product name
when one outgrows the feature set of the current solution.

Braden