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Author Re: [PEAR-QA] Re: BBC: Breaking Backward Compatibility
Bertrand Gugger

2004-11-21, 8:56 pm

Justin Patrin wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:31:35 +0100, bertrand Gugger <bertrand@toggg.com> wrote:
>
>
>Sorry Bertrand, but this has been discussed extensively already. The
>major version update is there for many reasons that have already been
>debated, not the least of which is that people often upgrade without
>thinking and end up with unusable scripts. Furthermore many people use
>other people's code and if upgrading PEAR breaks that code they may
>not be able to fix it.
>
>If updating a package makes lots of BC breaks, then it either hasn't
>been architected right or should still be unstable.
>
>
>

I absolutly agree, Justin,
as pear is quite distributed as php so far and anywhere, no break more
allowed
then should every architecture the best in mood
should every acceptance of a new component control its architecture
what I agree again.
so review that vote system.
Anyway, is it possible to instruct pear to make some warning or confirm
by "upgrade" ?
best,
bertrand
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