On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 10:14 AM, Alessandro Zummo<azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jun 2009 09:58:03 -0400 > "m. allan noah" <kitno455 at gmail.com> wrote: > >> > ?If we have decided to break for sane 2, it might be worthwhile >> > ?to do that in such a way to avoid troubles in the future. >> >> >> but this does not avoid troubles, it just pushes them out to the front-end >> developer, forcing him to have multiple branches in his code to deal with >> all the variations. I would much prefer to have the major number of the >> backend be a contract with the front-end author. If that means we have to >> leave some unmaintained backends behind, so be it. > > ?So you force it to either switch or to maintain two trees.
Julien's idea is precisely not to maintain two trees, but rather to abandon ancient code. Every other project I have ever been involved with has some mechanism to remove old stuff. Sane should be no different. > ?Oh well, I do not agree, but.. so be it. > > ?I'd love to have the media type anyway ;) And you can get it, along with things that other people want, as long as we are realistic about our capabilites, and we keep the front-end author's job as easy as possible. allan -- "The truth is an offense, but not a sin"
