El jue, 09-09-2010 a las 18:01 +0200, Levente Uzonyi escribió: > > When should one complain?
Never, they should ask for help, maybe file a bug, or better help to fix it and improve the system, but not complain. The contributors and people around Pharo are doing it in their free time for different reasons, but that doesn't means that they are somehow obliged or forced to make the system compatible for everyone and every situation and posible combination of factors, including, time, backward compatibility, API stability, technical support. The code as MIT says, is take it as it is: THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE. So if works for you fine. If breaks your code, sorry. If works in this version and the next don't, I feel sorry for you. Of course this isn't what happens regularly in an FOSS project, as the developers are proud to have a system that works correctly in most reasonable situations and they are by their nature very helpful people. But that is just because the good faith of the developers, not their obligation. So, yes, Pharo 1.0 was released and inmediatly Pharo 1.1 was worked out, changing the focus to the new version. If that means that people will have a couple hitches when migrating in order to use the newest changes, then that is a little price to pay (not monetary, but a price nonetheless). The backwards compatibility could be a good thing, but in this little community, we don't have the energy and people to try to do it always. And even if we had them, we don't want to. Neither the big bucks companies. Else, we'll still have 5in drives in our gorgeous Macbook Pro. Cheers -- Miguel Cobá http://miguel.leugim.com.mx _______________________________________________ Pharo-project mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gforge.inria.fr/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pharo-project
