In my opinion, the Rails version number should reflect the changes to the Rails API. The user-facing API did not see major changes due to the ARel rewrite.
As the author of two gems (MetaWhere and MetaSearch) that are heavily dependent on ARel for their functionality, I released updated gems an hour after 3.0.2 released, having been tracking the changes since Aaron started the rewrite. I didn't find the changes to be too troublesome to track, and the payoff was certainly worthwhile. Where I encountered missing or changed functionality I submitted patches to ARel to reduce/limit breakage. See http://metautonomo.us/2010/10/15/converting-your-code-to-arel-2-0/ for a writeup about some of the stuff I encountered, if you're curious. Aaron has been great about merging pull requests in a timely manner, in my opinion. I think anyone who maintains code that integrates with a lower-level API like ARel owes it to themselves to track major version changes in those dependencies, not just Rails. On Nov 15, 2010, at 5:19 PM, Ken Collins <k...@metaskills.net> wrote: > > All, > > I really do think the latest 3.0.2 version was poorly chosen. > > A "major" version of 1.x to 2.x of Arel should have at least affected the > "minor" version of rails/activerecord, not "tiny". As an author of an > external adapter, I set my gemspec expecting such to give me time to account > for the rewrite. A version change of 3.0.1 to 3.0.2 should not break my code. > Thoughts about this for future versioning? > > > - Thanks, > Ken > > > -- > 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 rubyonrails-c...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en. > -- 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 rubyonrails-c...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en.
