2.1 has never been released, breaking support of bleeding edge bundles is not of concern. Anyone using 2.1 for production should be expecting pain.
Just like those using alpha versions had major form changes before the RCs. +1 for revert On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 20:11, Lukas Kahwe Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Apr 27, 2012, at 12:06 , Michał Piotrowski wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> 2012/4/27 keymaster <[email protected]>: >>> >>> If we go with 2.1 = (Master less Form/Validator BC breaks), won't that cause >>> some confusion and destabilization in 3rd party land? >>> >>> Many 3rd party bundles have developed against Master and work fine. They >>> were slated to be the "2.1 compatable" versions of their bundles. >>> >>> If we create a 2.1 branch, but revert some updates out of it, than many >>> these 3rd party bundles which were tracking Master, will not work in 2.1. >>> They may also have to revert some code to be compatable with the "new" 2.1 >>> (as opposed to the old Master). >>> >>> The new 2.1 will necessarily be less stable than the Master, by definition, >>> since it's code base has soaked less than the Master. >>> >>> I understand the desire to maintain stability by not introducing BC breaks, >>> but if they are already in Master and being used, then it may be even more >>> destabilizing (and confusing for the entire community) to create a new 2.1 >>> branch with a subset of software with the Form/Validator stuff removed. >>> >> >> Recently I started to develop a new Symfony 2.1 application. Described >> changes do not cause any problems for me, but I fully agree with what >> keymaster wrote. There are bundles that works fine with actual Symfony >> master branch - form/validation changes may break these bundles. New >> Symfony release without hundreds of working bundles it is not >> something that users would like. From my POV it is better to release >> Symfony 2.1 with some form/validation BC breaks, than revertiong all >> these changes and to create something like a Frankenstein which is not >> so well tested :) > > > reverting the changes in the Bundles will be trivial and any Bundle author > that updated to master (aka 2.1) already will hear about this change back too > .. so I am sure they will get updated just as quickly. more importantly it > just means that their 2.1 version now becomes the 2.2 version. > > regards, > Lukas Kahwe Smith > [email protected] > > > > -- > If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to > security at symfony-project.com > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "symfony developers" 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/symfony-devs?hl=en -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.com You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" 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/symfony-devs?hl=en
