Re: On Not Merging new and old behavior ( was Re: Test-Stream + MongoDB scalar refcount issue )

On Sat, May 2, 2015 at 11:11 AM, Kent Fredric <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> That is, conceptually, its possible that a misguided author of a
> distribution at the same level as say, Test::Differences, thinks it wise to
> simply rewrite their existing code in the new framework.
>

We've seen that horror show in Dancer/Dancer2 around plugins.

I think that if we ship a Test::More2, then such a release should encourage
people to leave Test::Foo alone and fork it to Test::Foo2 instead.  Then a
new ecosystem can build up around it without sacrificing the existing one.

David


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