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Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without
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David Kastrup |
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Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options" |
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Sat, 14 Mar 2020 11:17:46 +0100 |
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Jonas Hahnfeld <address@hidden> writes:
> Am Samstag, den 14.03.2020, 10:50 +0100 schrieb David Kastrup:
>> Jonas Hahnfeld <
>> address@hidden
>> > writes:
>>
>> > Am Freitag, den 13.03.2020, 23:09 -0600 schrieb Anthony Fok:
>> > > On Fri, Mar 13, 2020 at 2:02 AM Jonas Hahnfeld <
>> > > address@hidden
>> > >
>> > > > wrote:
>> > > > I'm still not convinced that we need compatibility code, but I'm happy
>> > > > with anything that gets us to a release and is not technically wrong.
>> > >
>> > > By the way, from a Debian package maintainer point of view, breaking
>> > > backward compatibility is OK as long as it is documented, so if
>> > > breaking backward compatibility makes the code cleaner, more correct,
>> > > and/or easier to maintain for the future, I'd say "please break
>> > > compatibility"!
>> >
>> > I definitely think that's the case here.
>>
>> Backward compatibility will always get retired eventually. For the
>> current decision the main target is not really distributions since those
>> tend not to package unstable versions anyway.
>
> Exactly my argument in the past. So who is the "main target" in your
> opinion? I mostly remember the term "system integrators".
Is there a reason we should not be catering well to either?
--
David Kastrup
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", (continued)
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Han-Wen Nienhuys, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/13
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Anthony Fok, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options",
David Kastrup <=
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Jonas Hahnfeld, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Werner LEMBERG, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/14
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Werner LEMBERG, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Anthony Fok, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", David Kastrup, 2020/03/08
- Re: config.status has been broken by issue 5780 "Accept GUILE 2 without extra configure options", Anthony Fok, 2020/03/14