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

* David Golden <[email protected]> [2015-05-02 19:35]:
> 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.

It just occurred to me the other day that it might make sense to call
the new thing Test2. So we would get “Test2::Differences” and suchlike.
Then the ecosystems would be distinct from each other on sight.

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