On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:48 PM, Shmuel Fomberg <shmuelfomb...@gmail.com>wrote:
> Hi Stephen. > > On Fri, Dec 20, 2013 at 2:32 AM, Stephen Patterson wrote: > > >> I'm the maintainer of Finance::Bank::CooperativeUKPersonal, a module for >> downloading UK bank statements. Part of the output from this module is a >> statement date in dd/mm/yyyy (UK) format. As I've started using the module, >> I'm considering changing this to ISO-SQL standard - yyyy-mm-dd. What's the >> best way of communicating this change & managing things during changeover? > > > Is changing the interface really worth it? > If you already have users, they won't appreciate the cleanness of the new > interface. they just want their code to work. > So while I understand that you want to fix past mistakes, unless they are > major and doing real harm, just leave them be. > > don't worry, next module you will be wiser and make other mistakes. :-) > Some 35 years ago, the authors of make didn't want to change the tabs based syntax of makefile because they already had a few dozen users, we're still suffering for it. It shouldn't be done lightly, or often, but sometimes it is for the better. In this particular case, I'm wondering if a date_format argument taking a strftime/strptime string wouldn't make more sense. Why not have the user choose what it wants. Also, it may be a good idea if it stays consistent with the memorableDate argument. Leon
