Every application that gets coded by more then one person has benefit  
with timestamped migrations. I think most Rails applications get  
developed by > 1 person, so timestamped migrations are the logical  
choice imo.

regards,
Jan De Poorter
http://workswithruby.com

On 11 Jul 2008, at 16:11, Andrew Stone wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 9:54 AM, Michael Koziarski <[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
> > wrote:
>
> > If you don't mind, could you explain why the should be the  
> default?  Or is
> > this explanation already out there on a blog or something, I'm  
> obviously
> > missing something because I don't get that reasoning.
>
> For all the reasons it was included in the first place, fewer
> conflicts on branches, etc.  But most importantly, we don't want to
> change this behaviour back in a minor point release.  Those who want
> to switch to integers again can do so easily enough, and we keep the
> timestamps for people who need them.
>
>
> I'm not familiar with what the "etc" represents and find it funny  
> you mention "Those who want to switch to integers again can do so  
> easily enough".  When those who wanted timestamps could have done it  
> easily enough without it being forced upon those who don't.
>
> You guys made the logical push of removing features from core that  
> were "edge use cases" to plugins but then pulled a plugin into core  
> and made the standard, without an option.  That is quite confusing.
>
> I understand the notion of "convention over configuration" and  
> "opinionated software" but this is a step beyond.
>
> -- 
> Andrew Stone
> >


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