I understand that support for Symfony 1.2 is supposed to end in November with the release of Symfony 1.3.
What practices, if any, in Symfony 1.2 code are expected to be incompatible with Symfony 1.3? I know Symfony 1.3 won't be the huge change that Symfony 1.1/1.2 were. But I still don't think it's wise to drop support for practices considered valid in 1.2 the moment 1.3 appears. Other long-established open source projects do not do this on such a scale. Valid PHP 5.0.x code runs on PHP 5.3.x, with deprecation warnings sometimes, but it runs. And 5.2.x is definitely still being actively supported after the release of 5.3.x. It is very difficult to make responsible proposals to clients without ongoing support for at least the previous minor version series for Symfony. I know Symfony 1.2 wasn't supposed to be an LTS release but the reality is that it was the first stable-enough-to-use release of Symfony since the end of the 1.0.x series, and people have migrated long term projects to it out of necessity. I strongly feel it should be supported for at least a year after the release of 1.3. I also think it is appropriate to fix serious bugs like http://trac.symfony-project.org/ticket/6937 in the 1.2 series, making features work substantially as advertised unless the only possible fix is a backwards incompatible change. But I can live without embedded M2M relation forms ever working in 1.2. What I find difficult to live without is enough stability that the Symfony releases page doesn't frighten clients off. BC breaks in a mature system should be a major-version thing (2.0, not 1.0), and there should be ongoing support of the previous major version for quite a while when they happen. I love this framework - please help me sell it to my clients as something that will continue to work for at least a year. (: -- Tom Boutell P'unk Avenue 215 755 1330 punkave.com window.punkave.com --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "symfony developers" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/symfony-devs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
