(The following is a personal response and may or may not be in line with my
company's official opinions.)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Murray Cumming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 20, 2001 5:48 PM
Subject: Re: Changing include to include/xercesc - Summary and Vote
> You should expect far more major changes to libraries at certain
> intervals. A properly maintained library would keep a stable API for a
> long time, and occasionally make large incompatible changes. If you say
> that no incompatible changes should ever be made then you are opting for
> stagnation. However, I repeat that this particular change should require
> only minimal changes to existing builds.
Nope, I did not (and still don't) say such a thing. I said that I would
gladly welcome a major change to directory/make-structure if it was just
that - a major change and I could see all the benefits from it. I clearly
said that if autoconf support had been there I would happily vote yes for a
directory renaming. Now it will mean two takes at changing the environment.
And besides - I did not even mention anything about the code or the API. As
far as I know, those are not related to directory naming.
> Your environment should be able to cope with minor directory renames. If
> not, then I don't think that we should all be punished for your
> mistakes.
Sadly enough, the environment is not mine. This is a beast, whose soul came
alive over ten years ago. But that is slightly off topic... :-)
Please, get off it - I am not punishing you or anyone else for our
environment. What I did was simply respond to Tinny Ng's request about
voting and those views presented in the original mail still holds. By
saying that I think this is a bad idea I am not saying that I think that
you are a bad person.
Please reply to my mailbox and not the list if you want to elaborate
further on this issue.
Regards,
Martin.
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