On Tue, 2006-11-21 at 13:59 -0500, Christopher Aillon wrote:
Rex is correct. We should look to avoid these situations if at all
possible. But sometimes, there is no good alternative.
No disagreement ... if
"there is no good alternative" ... I am not
against breaking ABIs/APIs/etc.
But, from an FE background, the situation is conversely:
People break ABIs/APIs/etc., because they are not aware about doing so,
because they do not care about it, because they blindly follow upstream
(and upstream doesn't care about ABI/API/etc.) or because they think
"having feature XXX outweighs ABI/API/etc.".
Ralf