David E. Wheeler wrote:
> On Feb 21, 2009, at 10:54 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:
> 
>> There is Perl 5 style backwards compatibility where you never, ever break
>> anything for years and years and years and even for code that you're
>> not sure
>> even exists.  That's what chromatic is on about.
>>
>> And then there's backwards compatibility where you try not to clearly
>> break
>> everyone's well-written code!
>>
>> I think that second one has value.
> 
> Agreed, but that's what a deprecation cycle is for.

TAP currently has no deprecation cycle.  That's what I introduced earlier.
http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/tap/current/msg00411.html


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