On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, 19:25 Christian Schneider, <cschn...@cschneid.com> wrote:
> Am 24.04.2019 um 19:13 schrieb Marco Pivetta <ocram...@gmail.com>: > > On Wed, 24 Apr 2019, 19:10 Christian Schneider, <cschn...@cschneid.com> > wrote: > > Am 24.04.2019 um 19:01 schrieb Peter Kokot <peterko...@gmail.com>: > > > just a friendly reminder that by the time one writes an email here > > > these tags can be already replaced with the usual ones. > > > > A friendly reminder that some people are hosting customer code which > they do not want to touch but will get support requests once the code > breaks. > > > > - Chris > > > > That's normal? Everyone has projects to maintain, and breaking changes > are common: they're gonna call you for one anyway: if you don't like that, > then you are in the wrong line of business. > > See Chase Peeler's point: A breaking change should have a reward big > enough to justify it. > And that's what where we (including Zeev Suraski and other core > developers) disagree. > > - Chris > Run a fixer: they are out there, and they are extremely stable too. Also a good chance to finally take a look at code that has been rotting in a hard drive for too much time.