Re: Huge renaming pending

On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Guillaume Rousse wrote:

> Backward compatibility has a cost, and I feel it now overweight its 
> advantages. Release notes are precisely made for explaining real changes, 
> instead of just explaining gnome 2.7 has been updated to gnome 2.8...

Yes, as long as the changes are properly documented, I don't see any
problem.

(But we have to make sure the release notes will carry the proper
information to prevent the situation where a user upgrades from, say,
2005LE to 2006 and suddenly sees his web server not working anymore
due to incompatible configuration files.)