I'd like to retract my earlier comment. I wasn't thinking straight... we're talking about 5.2 which is not the stable release yet. I'd rather have to modify that line of code than have a policy of incrementing version numbers for every little change in an interface. Sorry for the distraction.
Josh On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 12:11 PM, Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 Apr 2010 15:20:49 -0300, Josh Canfield <[email protected]> > wrote: > >>> A change regarding how translators are contributed wouldn't >>> be an issue, I guess. Few lines of code would need to be changed. >> >> While I agree that it is a small issue to fix for most developers, >> it's still a bullet point on the "tapestry versions aren't backward >> compatible" list. If you're on a project with any tapestry doubters it >> will add to the difficulty in getting more projects done with >> Tapestry. > > I agree, but that's a very different scale. Tapestry 5 was 100% incompatible > with T4, and we're talking about a small change. As Howard said, there are > situations that keeping perfect backward compatibility while still improving > the framework is impossible. > > By the way, in the mailing list, there were people complaining that T5 > wasn't compatible with T4 and other people complaining that T5 will be > always backward compatible, so it won't evolve and then it will die > (http://old.nabble.com/Tapestry-6%3A-Famous-last-words--to24225398s302.html#a24230166), > and that wasn't a troll. Perfect backward compatibility isn't a good > trade-off, IMHO. > > -- > Thiago H. de Paula Figueiredo > Independent Java, Apache Tapestry 5 and Hibernate consultant, developer, and > instructor > Owner, Ars Machina Tecnologia da Informação Ltda. > http://www.arsmachina.com.br > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > -- -- http://www.bodylabgym.com - a private, by appointment only, one-on-one health and fitness facility. -- http://www.ectransition.com - Quality Electronic Cigarettes at a reasonable price! -- TheDailyTube.com. Sign up and get the best new videos on the internet delivered fresh to your inbox. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
