As an end user, I would _hate_ to have to change all of my code to
reference a totally new package structure after the podling graduates.
 That's a major pain...

With JSPWiki we have plenty of plugins and other extensions donated by people over the years. Every binary break means that we obsolete most of this stuff (unless we can take the responsibility of recompiling everything). Every binary break means that we will have to answer questions from people running obsolete software because they can't afford the cost of the upgrade because they have money invested in the customizations.

So it's not only the pain of upgrading the package definitions; changing packages issues a damaging blow to the ecosystem nurtured in the incubator. Sometimes the impact can be minimal; sometimes it could be rather bad.

/Janne

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