Re: [PEAR-QA] Re: BBC: Breaking Backward Compatibility

On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 20:32, bertrand Gugger wrote:
> Justin Patrin wrote:
> 
> 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

That's not needed since if there is a BC break with a stable package, it
has to be released again with a "new" name

like:

Package, and then Package has a BC break after going stable, it has to
be released as Package2, that way users can "accidentally" upgrade to a
BC breaking package.

- Helgi

you may want to have a look at some of the announcements:

http://pear.php.net/group/
http://pear.php.net/news/

Generally I applaud your efforts. However most of what you talk about
has already been brought to very good final decisions (it seems that you
are actually asking for exactly what we have already decided upon).
There are however other open tasks: like promoting test suites, ensuring
that users actually know about them. Documentation is another etc.

Anyways: please dont be discouraged by people telling you stuff is old
news .. its just that we have actually tried to solve alot of the kind
of stuff you are talking about since the last 1,5 years.

regards,
Lukas

Lukas Smith wrote:

> you may want to have a look at some of the announcements:
>
> http://pear.php.net/group/
> http://pear.php.net/news/
>
> Generally I applaud your efforts. However most of what you talk about
> has already been brought to very good final decisions (it seems that
> you are actually asking for exactly what we have already decided
> upon). There are however other open tasks: like promoting test suites,
> ensuring that users actually know about them. Documentation is another
> etc.
>
> Anyways: please dont be discouraged by people telling you stuff is old
> news .. its just that we have actually tried to solve alot of the kind
> of stuff you are talking about since the last 1,5 years.
>
> regards,
> Lukas
>
If this answer is for me, I promise to review these links above.
I would, anyway, never believe something can be out of discussion.
ą+
bertrand

bertrand Gugger wrote:
> Lukas Smith wrote:
> 

> If this answer is for me, I promise to review these links above.

It was for you

> I would, anyway, never believe something can be out of discussion.

yes of course .. but it people tend to expect everybody to know what we
already did in the past :-)

of course you cant really expect that from newcomers .. however our ml
archives and the announcements are there too the rescue :-)

onces you are upto speed with things your input will me much more
meaningful for us all.

regards,
Lukas