On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 02:39:26AM -0700, keymaster wrote: > > If we go with 2.1 = (Master less Form/Validator BC breaks), won't that > cause some confusion and destabilization in 3rd party land? > > Many 3rd party bundles have developed against Master and work fine. They > were slated to be the "2.1 compatable" versions of their bundles.
Very good point here. Another one is; Will there be BC breaks at all with 2.0 -> 2.1 without Validation/Forms? The answer seems to be "Yes" and as long as that remains true I have a slight feeling that pissing off the users with BC breaks for each minor release (2.0 -> 2.1 and then bigger breaks 2.1 to 2.2) is not a very good idea. symfony 1 was bad in these matters, lets not go back there please. One problem I had with symfony 1 was that plugins broke and never got repaired by their maintainers when 1.2 got into 1.3/1.4 and that made upgrades hell. And that might just as well happen here. If we do this *once* for the whole life of 2.X it may be OK and you will know that using 2.1 will keep you and the third party bundles happy and alive. But picking a third party bundle now, when you *know* that it will not work when 2.2 is out is not easy. It may be another year and you never know what happens with the maintenance in that time. And yes; "Just fix it yourself then" is an answer and possible but it will still piss the users/developers off and make more people than me reconsider the choice of using Symfony again. I am going to invest quite a lot of time on different bundles and applications the next year and without the knowledge that I can do that without too much BC hassle I will start discussing alternatives with my collegues. And I am pretty sure I'm not the only one. If I am, it's not much of a loss but then again.. Thomas. -- If you want to report a vulnerability issue on symfony, please send it to security at symfony-project.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
