On Sat, May 14, 2005 at 09:47:31AM -0700, Jeremy Boynes wrote:
David Blevins wrote:
Paying attention is an understatement. In order to serialize data to and from class definitions, those classes cannot change in any significant way, ever. No refactoring, repackaging, reorganizing, no removing methods, no removing class variables. This doesn't just apply to public APIs, but even the internal classes of each component.
In other words, the level of stability users expect from enterprise-grade software.
I can't argue with you there. Code not changing significantly from release to release is the ultimate of stable....
Who needs bug fixes and optimizations anyway ;-)
I would not classify "refactoring, repackaging, reorganizing, [no] removing methods, [no] removing class variables" as "bug fixes and optimizations", but heck, I only want it to work reliably.
-- Jeremy
