----- Original Message ----- > From: "Tim Starling" <[email protected]>
> I think MediaWiki 2.0 should just be a renumbering, like Linux 2.6 -> > 3.0, rather than any kind of backwards compatibility break. I disagree. (You knew that was coming, right? :-) A major version number change *necessarily implies* an API compatibility break of some type, or a major rewrite. In the case of 2.6 to 3.0 of the kernel, as someone pointed out to me, the change was *in the numbering protocol itself*; prior to 3.0, odd numbers were dev; that's no longer true, which makes it a suitable break to bump the major version number. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink [email protected] Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274 _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
