On Mon, 21 Mar 2016 11:06:02 -0500,
Neil Van Dyke wrote:
> Just tossing out an idea here, to prompt discussion, not proposing
> it... What if it were within policy for a package author to introduce a
> backwards-incompatible change, *iff* the author is reasonably confident
> that it wouldn't break
The perpetual backward-compatibility requirement of the package system
policy is still (including this morning) creating headaches for me, as a
party who is trying to maintain open source packages for things that I
develop and use for my own purposes.
If the package system isn't going to get a
