23 Oct
2010
23 Oct
'10
5:42 p.m.
"vicente.botet" <vicente.botet@wanadoo.fr> wrote in message news:C760054B35E448C8A31F88FED992010A@viboes1...
Change requests that break the interface should not be acceptable in principle.
True, but in itself this practically a tautology... Obviously, and thankfully, it is also not a dogma as sometimes other goals have outweighed this principle (so we did have breaking changes, like the Filesystem, GIL.IO....)... -- "What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate." Neil Postman