-1, at this point. I'd like to look at some specific test cases to
see how badly it might break a build - so I could be convinced.
No matter how bad the existing behaviour, it is consistent once in
place. I think it's unacceptable to drop this into a .0.x release, no
matter what the release notes say. Even if it makes it better for new
builds, the people that have their current one mysteriously break
will be rightly livid. I think we suffered this a little earlier when
we enforced order when it wasn't deterministic - I think this would
be more confusing than in that instance.
Our users must be able to trust point releases are safe upgrades.
Let's start moving on putting out 2.1 milestone releases instead.
- Brett
On 16/03/2007, at 11:33 AM, Jason van Zyl wrote:
Hi,
After working with it a little this week I would like to propose to
make MNG-1577 behavior introduced the default. Builds are
completely and totally unpredictable without this behavior. The
behavior in 2.0.5 is fundamentally broken. To are totally prey to
any dependency introduced by a dependency which makes no sense and
completely counter intuitive. I stabilized a massive build this
week simply by using the behavior present in the 2.0.x branch. I
don't think we're doing anyone any favors leaving the old behavior
in. After watching a disaster be recovered by using this new
behavior I feel that the patch should go in as is and become the
default behavior. This puts the user in control which is the way it
should be.
I propose we make this the default behavior. Can anyone think of a
case where this degree of control would break an existing build?
This patch saved my bacon this week, I think this behavior makes a
world of difference to users.
Jason.
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