On Wed, May 30, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Mark Hahn <[email protected]> wrote:

> I would be very unhappy if someone broke my code.  Ask the jquery bdfl
> what happened when he tried to make a non-backwards-compatible change.
>

I tried to let this go, but I just couldn't. jQuery has a history of making
non-backwards-compatible changes. Some users update their code, some users
stay on old versions, some users patch over it, some users yell (these
groups are not mutually exclusive). The library improves, time passes, and
things settle down. Our usage and adoption rate is generally unchanged even
when we introduce breaking changes. Expect more non-backwards-compatible
changes to jQuery in the future.

Node should fix its problems, even if that means a slightly painful upgrade
in a specific version for some percentage of users.

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