Re: River and Backward Compatibility

Mark Brouwer wrote:
> Brian Murphy wrote:
>
>> One thing I might add though, would be that many of us don't
>> speak up because we want to avoid getting drawn into one
>> of those endless "discussions" that -- to some of us -- don't
>> matter much, and often never come to any sort of conclusion
>> ('tabs or spaces' seems to be like 'religion and politics' --
>> something I never discuss).
>
> Hi Brian,
>
> The fact these things never come to a sort of a conclusion I consider a
> problem (given the fact that we have a mixed codebase). The fact that
> these things pop up IMHO not, if you think it is a meaningless
> discussion simply ignore it. If the whole community thinks like this
> these kind of discussions will die soon enough.
>
> Bottom line I'm glad you gave your opinion with regard to compatibility,
> it is much more convincing this way than a committer mentioning "there
> are people out there who find backwards compatibility important", so
> thanks for that.
>
> But also (and better worded by Patrick Dowler than one might have
> extracted from my response to Dan) it allows me to ask you what you
> exactly mean with your "+1 for backward compatibility" as the original
> question was "How much backward compatibility does everybody expect in
> this first release?".
>
> Should I read it as 100% compatible even with respect to the directory
> layout of the distribution, only with regard to API, or something
> completely different.

Not gonna speak for Brian but:

"As a matter of fact, I suspect that should
river break compatibility in any significant way, we would
simply continue using the 2.1 JSK distribution. So far that
implementation continues to serve our needs quite
well, and we're very happy with it's stability and performance
in our system."

Would seem to be a good characterization of where Brian is at.  Further
I doubt we'll get a definitive answer here.  At least to me it seems
more likely that whenever we're looking at breaking backwards
compatibility we'll need some timely debate on the why's, wherefore's
and impacts.

> --
> Mark
>
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