On Monday, 09/23/2002 at 11:01 ZE2, Libor Kramolis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is it really necessary to do backward incompatible changes? Why not to > leave it deprecated.
Keeping old code around past a reasonable "expiration date" drives up memory usage, and drives up maintainance cost (because _someone_ will insist that the old calls be actively maintained). Given that Apache has no budget, I'd consider that a bad game to get into. Also, please note that the APIs which we're proposing to change are still considered experimental. Long-term stability is not yet promised. A deprecation period is appropriate; casting the current state of the API in concrete probably isn't. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
