On Mon, Feb 11, 2013 at 5:37 PM, Hagar Delest <hagar.del...@laposte.net> wrote: > Le 11/02/2013 22:46, Rob Weir a écrit : >> >> My impression was that even if we made no changes, from the user's >> perspective, they would lose all extensions. This is due to the >> change in base directory for the profile. So all extensions would be >> lost and need to be reinstalled. So there will be no doubt in the >> user's mind, even if they do not read the release notes, that the >> extensions are gone. >> [...] >> >> Again, my impression is that users will lose their extensions and need >> to reinstall them, even if we do not make any API changes. >> [...] >> >> I think a "clean break" with the past profile helps us avoid the >> current generation of crash issues. We get to start clean rather than >> deal with the many upgrade paths: > > > No real problem with reinstalling extensions after a major upgrade, I've > done that too. > But there is a difference between the mere inconvenience of reinstalling > extensions and losing them completely (waiting that someone dare update > them). >
Is that what we're really facing? Are you saying that extension author will not update their extensions if they become incompatible? Is that what we think? I agree that this would be a bad situation. But is it the likely situation we would face? The authors of the top extensions would not update? -Rob > Hagar
