Pat Maddox wrote: > > You are completely out of line even suggesting that David is selfish > or unprofessional. Do you have any clue how many changes he HASN'T > made because it would break backwards compatibility? How much effort > goes into sensibly deprecating stuff? The work he does to keep RSpec > working with old versions of Rails (only very recently *announcing* > discontinued support of 1.2.x), as well as consistently keeping it > working with edge Rails even with all of its internal breakage. >
I did not believe that what I understood from the choice of words used with respect to removing part of the RSpec API could be correct and so I asked whether or not I was mistaken. Evidently because of my phrasing this was somehow turned into a slur on the people who work on RSpec. I regret that but no insult was intended, it was just a statement of how I understood what I had just read incorporated with a request to have my interpretation corrected. If this had been raised in person and not via email I venture that my question would have been answered directly and without rancor. The initial response that I received from Mr. Dennis was uncalled for. It would have been enough to say that there exists a compelling technical reason to remove the item. It would have been useful to outline briefly what that technical reason was. Bear in mind please that those outside of the inner circle of contributors generally are not conversant with all of the issues facing a project. We nonetheless may possess reasonable concerns with respect to its future development. I am well aware that Rails is a moving target and that Ruby is about to go through the convulsions that will accompany the move to 1.9/2.x in the near future. I expect that in consequence a vast amount of software presently in use will either have to be revised extensively or abandoned. I am not dogmatic about backwards compatibly. On the other hand, I also have first hand experience with OSS projects where backwards compatibility appeared inconsequential. Instead of advising people who raise issues like this to go fork their own project, perhaps a brief statement as to why the action is deemed appropriate might be better. Compare the response from Mr. Dennis to that from Mr. Chelimsky. You may now have the last word. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. _______________________________________________ rspec-users mailing list rspec-users@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/rspec-users
