| Chuck Hagenbuch 2004-08-24, 11:04 pm |
| Quoting Culley Harrelson <harrelson@gmail.com>:
> This sounds like a weak excuse for library authors to screw with the
> API. I am self employed, writing applications in php that pay my
> mortgage and feed my kids. My livelihood depends on the stability of
> the libraries I use. I have a 1500 line todo list and *no* time to go
> back and rewrite code because a library has changed it's api. I want
> to rewrite code when my business changes and that is it. When I have
> to rewrite code because the library API changes I see it as an
> indication that I chose the wrong library to use in the first place.
Sounds like you need to either write all your code yourself, or pay
someone else
for it. Open source code evolves, and that's where a lot of its strength comes
from. If you can't evolve with it, then *you* are making bad choices.
-chuck
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