> Staying with 1.2 meant not only staying with the Clojure core, which worked > fine, but also losing any progress on any of the contribs, which was frankly > more important to me than core language changes. Perhaps part of the really > big issue here is not Clojure per se, but the contribs. In one fell swoop, > the entire contrib universe for 1.2 was being deprecated. I saw no commitment > anywhere that bug fixes would be backported to the 1.2 contrib library. (I'm > not making a principled stand here: the clojure contrib library as of 1.2 was > very spotty in quality, and required many workarounds for bugs in my code. I > very much look forward to fixes there.)
Agreed, this is really all about the contribs. And now that they are independently versioned, there should never be a big bump like the move to 1.3 again. Stu -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en
