2012/4/27 Lukas Kahwe Smith <[email protected]>: > > 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.
If I understand correctly, only BC breaking PR's will be reverted. So Symfony 2.1 forms/validator will be something between Symfony 2.0.x and master. I am afraid that this franken form / franken validators will not be well tested. I hope you know what you are doing :) > > 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 -- Best regards, Michal http://eventhorizon.pl/ -- 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
