Let me repeat ... I have seven years of experience (in Tapestry) on how NOT to be backwards compatible. T5 is all about ensuring future backwards compatibility without compromising the ability to enhance the framework going forward.
On 10/23/07, Christian Gruber <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ok, whatever. I give in. I'll go and use T4 and whine at Howard > now. Oh wait, no I won't. I'll work on T5 and try to encourage it > into as re-usable, and less brittle and change-vulnerable a form as I > can, so that there is more likelihood of upgradability. (Howard's > doing quite well about that already) > > Honestly, I wouldn't be so hostile at the moment if Kranga hadn't > dropped the implication that I was stupid for merely observing > something about version numbers. Just follow the links. I'm not > saying anyone's wrong for saying that they want compatibility. I'm > just saying (and it was all I was saying) that often (and provably > often - see the links) major version numbers indicate > incompatibility. That's not my opinion - that's an observation. I > wasn't saying it was right, or better. I'm saying it's fair of the > author to do what other software has clearly done before him, and > Howard had the decency to make a major version bump to indicate that > it's a new platform. I suppose he could have called it TapestryNG or > something. > > Anyway, I'm out of this conversation. When people are comparing > opinion with observed (and referenced) facts and giving me grief for > it, they should try editing Wikipedia more. There at least that kind > of thing isn't tolerated. > > Christian. > > On 23-Oct-07, at 9:15 AM, Peter Stavrinides wrote: > > > Christian, kranga is right. You can't keep telling yourself it is > > okay to change the framework to the point that an entire rewrite is > > needed to existing code. Some upgrading is expected (and necessary), > > but Tapestry will die a quick death, no matter how good it is under > > the hood, if you slap devotees in the face again and again. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- Howard M. Lewis Ship Partner and Senior Architect at Feature50 Creator Apache Tapestry and Apache HiveMind
