Re: [RFC] Text-Balanced 1.96 proposed interface changes: return failure in list context

[email protected] (Vagn Johansen) Mon, 16 Feb 2004 11:00:09 +0100

Newsgroups	perl.recdescent,perl.module-authors
Organization	Milestone Systems
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

David Nicol on 15 Feb 2004 18:31:25 -0600 writes:

> On Fri, 2004-02-13 at 00:45, David Manura wrote:
>>  [ the interface will change! ]
>
> I hope you are planning on adding a VERSION subroutine that will not
> accept requests for old, incompatible versions, while accepting requests
> for all later versions (which presumably will be bug-fixes and
> backwards-compatible feature extensions only.)
>

How are interface changes handled on CPAN? 

How do you avoid breaking old programs when the interface changes?

Just curious.

-- 
Vagn Johansen