* David Golden <x...@xdg.me> [2015-05-02 19:35]: > On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Kent Fredric <kentfred...@gmail.com> wrote: > > That is, conceptually, its possible that a misguided author of > > a distribution at the same level as say, Test::Differences, thinks > > it wise to simply rewrite their existing code in the new framework. > > We've seen that horror show in Dancer/Dancer2 around plugins. > > I think that if we ship a Test::More2, then such a release should > encourage people to leave Test::Foo alone and fork it to Test::Foo2 > instead. Then a new ecosystem can build up around it without > sacrificing the existing one.
It just occurred to me the other day that it might make sense to call the new thing Test2. So we would get “Test2::Differences” and suchlike. Then the ecosystems would be distinct from each other on sight. -- Aristotle Pagaltzis // <http://plasmasturm.org/>
