On 18 Sep 2014, at 14:30, Sean P. DeNigris <[email protected]> wrote:
> GitHub wrote
>> 14018 backport #uncapitalized to Pharo3
>
> Not a big deal, but this doesn't seem to fit our bugfix-only backport
> policy. What was the rationale?
>
The rational is: Simplify API evolution.
If we deprecate a method in Pharo4, people like to change their code base *and*
use the
same code on Pharo3.
(Zinc is one example of that).
So for simple “rename” changes like this, we can reduce the pain of people *a
lot* by providing the
same method in Pharo3. Keep in mind that we do *not* do the actual change of
rewriting all senders
and deprecating the old method. That is just done in Pharo4.
Marcus
