[sage-devel] Backwards incompatibility

2009-02-10 Thread kcrisman
I don't have much of an opinion about the various tab-completion options :) But I would echo mabshoff's warnings about backwards incompatibility. What would happen is not that people (and here I mean people who download Sage, use it, and forget about any community - certainly never email sage-sup

[sage-devel] backwards incompatibility

2008-01-24 Thread Jason Grout
The discussion related to #1900 brings up a point about backwards compatibility. Last summer, it seemed like we could change the interface from version to version and it wasn't a big deal---the community was small enough and updated often enough that we weren't worried about preserving or eve