Then how would any software ever progress? I have Windows 95 software that's incompatible with Windows XP. I still have licenses for OCX controls from VB4 that don't work with .NET. But this incompatibility is necessary to ensure progress and refinement of the software products.
I realize the change you mentioned is trivial and probably should have gone through a "holy crap this is going away phase", but I don't think your point about it NEVER trumping incompatibility holds a lot of water. </thread_jack> --Jeremy On Mon, Oct 13, 2008 at 8:01 PM, Nate Wiger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can I just add that, since this is purely a bikeshed discussion, and > there is TONS of code that inherits from ActiveRecord::Base (and > others), there is no reason to repaint everyone's bikeshed red just to > satisfy the few people that have mentioned casually that they don't > really like blue? > > I suspect you'd hear quite the uproar breaking such a huge piece of > compatibility. It is the way it is. > > On a related note, the "internals" change of Inflector -> > ActiveSupport::Inflector and Dependencies -> > ActiveSupport::Dependencies in Rails 2.1.1 actually broke alot of my > code that was in Rakefiles and other places that was taking advantage > of these very cool Rails modules. For this reason we're stuck on > Rails 2.1.0 until we can lockstep upgrade everything. It's actually a > huge pain in the butt, again for a needless bikeshed change. > > "Better" or "prettier" or "more proper" should never trump > "incompatible". > > -Nate > > > -- http://jeremymcanally.com/ http://entp.com/ http://omgbloglol.com My books: http://manning.com/mcanally/ http://humblelittlerubybook.com/ (FREE!) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
