Include a backwards-compatability task library with the old names that
just delegates to the new modularized ones? Might be overkill if it's
not going to be a serious problem but it's relatively easy to do.

On 2/27/06, David Heinemeier Hansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> So Rake 0.7 allows for namespaces in actions. It's mighty nice. rake
> db:schema:import and rake db:schema:export whips the llama's ass on
> db_schema_import/export. It makes it much to organize tasks. Yay, yay.
>
> But how does this relate to backwards compatibility? What would happen
> if the next release changed all the tasks over to be namespaced? Who
> and want would break? I'm coming up short with ideas on where it would
> be a problem, but I'd like to hear if others have some dependencies on
> the specific rake names.
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