Peter Eisentraut wrote: > On tis, 2011-06-14 at 13:50 -0400, Robert Haas wrote: > > There are real problems with the idea of having one release where we > > break everything that we want to break - mostly from a process > > standpoint. We aren't always good at being organized and disciplined, > > and coming up with a multi-year plan to break everything all at once > > in 2014 for release in 2015 may be difficult, because it requires a > > consensus on release management to hold together for years, and > > sometimes we can't even manage "days". > > I have had this fantasy of a break-everything release for a long time as > well, but frankly, experience from other projects such as Python 3, Perl > 6, KDE 4, Samba 4, add-yours-here, indicates that such things might not > work out so well. > > OK, some of those were rewrites as well as interface changes, but the > effect visible to the end user is mostly the same.
Funny you mentioned Perl 6 because I just blogged about that: http://momjian.us/main/blogs/pgblog/2011.html#June_14_2011 -- Bruce Momjian <br...@momjian.us> http://momjian.us EnterpriseDB http://enterprisedb.com + It's impossible for everything to be true. + -- Sent via pgsql-hackers mailing list (pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-hackers