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Re: module dependencies issues

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On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 7:11 AM, Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> wrote:
> Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>:
>
>> In general, I would expect that B 1.1 is backward-compatible with B
>> 1.0, unless otherwise stated. Why must it be declared in any way other
>> than the version number?
>
> To make it explicit. The generic component system shouldn't impose
> (m)any assumptions on version numbering. Version numbers can contain
> digits, punctuation, letters. Comparisons should be done the way "ls
> -v" and "sort -V" do it.
>
> Whoever creates B-1.1 ought to make it backward-compatible, but he
> should also say so. The majority of developers are careless about
> backward-compatibility; having the component system make wishful
> assumptions will lead to catastrophic consequences.

I strongly disagree. All your idea would do is create a massive
compatibility matrix, which would itself become utterly
unmaintainable. It's all very well to ask for a declaration that 1.1
is compatible with 1.0, but what happens when you add in 1.2 and 1.3,
and then add some point releases on all of them? Python 2.7 is up to
2.7.10; does every one of them need to declare backward compatibility
with every other, and with every point release of 2.6, and 2.5, and
how far back do we go? And just how compatible does it have to be to
get a tick? EVERY change can break someone's workflow - XKCD 1172
comes to mind - so does that mean that a single bugfix prevents the
compatibility mark? No. Version numbers exist to provide a granularity
to the compatibility concerns.

ChrisA

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Re: module dependencies issues Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 05:59 +1000
  Re: module dependencies issues Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-09 23:36 +0300
    Re: module dependencies issues Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 06:47 +1000
      Re: module dependencies issues Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-10 00:11 +0300
        Re: module dependencies issues Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 07:20 +1000
          Re: module dependencies issues Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-10 00:33 +0300
            Re: module dependencies issues Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2015-07-10 07:45 +1000
              Re: module dependencies issues Marko Rauhamaa <marko@pacujo.net> - 2015-07-10 03:04 +0300
                Re: module dependencies issues Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2015-07-10 01:24 +0100

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