On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 6:12 PM, Johan Tibell
Hi,
I find myself reluctant to add new instances to the unordered-containers package, because doing so would require a major version bump according to the PVP. Major version bumps are annoying for several reasons:
* Libraries that depend on unordered-containers need to be updated and make new releases. * We get rapid successions of major releases without many actual changes (i.e. none as far as most users are concerned).
Introducing new instances is unlikely to break users, as they will only get into trouble if they use orphan instances, which is already asking for trouble!
Thoughts?
Cheers, Johan
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+1. New instances will only break code that wrote orphan instances. And I think people who write orphan instances know that this kind of breakage may happen at some point. Michael