On Feb 1, 2008 3:36 PM, Bulat Ziganshin
Hello Ketil,
Friday, February 1, 2008, 4:29:02 PM, you wrote:
may be it's too draconian restriction but i proposed just to use new library in the new code.
For backwards compatibility, I agree it would be preferable to retain the current default implementation, but opinions appear to differ. Whatever.
the problem is not abstract "backward compatibility" but programs that switches from the old lib to the new one. they should get exactly the old services for old names - in order to not rewrite program
Couldn't we handle backward compability by having say a 1.x line and a 2.x line of a library and push fixes to both? I'm afraid that libraries will turn into a mess eventually if they must support all old software in new versions. -- Johan