On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 12:09 PM, Andrew Faulds <ajf...@googlemail.com>wrote:
> Kris, I'd love to break BC a lot and fix things, but it would seriously > slow adoption. Fixing *bugs* has stopped people upgrading, imagine how they > would react to non-bugs being changed. > > I agree with your point. I guess my thinking is that this is an unavoidable cost of progress, at least on a major version change. Given that the alternative is an increasingly stagnated codebase, IMHO the cost of slower adoption would be the "lesser of two evils." --Kris
