Re: Compatibility-promise-less API's Re: Let's branch on Friday.

2013-04-11 Thread Stefan Sperling
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 08:00:30AM -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > The last thing we need is a new "class" of public APIs with special promises. I agree, it would add too much extra complexity. Our API rules are already quite complex.

Re: Compatibility-promise-less API's Re: Let's branch on Friday.

2013-04-11 Thread C. Michael Pilato
On 04/10/2013 09:50 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> That's unprecedented, we've never released an API "without compatibility >> promises". We could do that but that's a separate discussion IMO. > > That might be a good idea. How about we introduce a class of public > APIs, disabled by default (i.e.,

Re: Compatibility-promise-less API's Re: Let's branch on Friday.

2013-04-11 Thread Daniel Shahaf
Ivan Zhakov wrote on Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 13:24:32 +0400: > On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Daniel Shahaf wrote on Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 02:28:30 +0300: > >> Ivan Zhakov wrote on Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 23:33:01 +0400: > >> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Daniel Shahaf

Re: Compatibility-promise-less API's Re: Let's branch on Friday.

2013-04-11 Thread Ivan Zhakov
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:50 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Daniel Shahaf wrote on Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 02:28:30 +0300: >> Ivan Zhakov wrote on Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 23:33:01 +0400: >> > On Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 10:02 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: >> > > Ivan Zhakov wrote on Wed, Apr 10, 2013 at 21:48:39 +0