On 5/19/09 11:06 AM, Martijn Faassen wrote:
Chris McDonough wrote: [snip]
Er, it actually isn't a major release. None of *its* interfaces moved. I thought we were defining "major release" as "API change".
Hm, a dependency change isn't a bugfix either.
It's an edge case, and one where I think we should err on the side of caution. It's a change in behavior that could have more consequences than the normally bugfix, though less consequences than API change.
It could be argued that a change in dependencies *is* a feature change. Less might be registered. People might depend on implicit dependencies being present (even though they shouldn't). Less might be monkey-patched...
It was recorded here previously:
http://docs.zope.org/zopetoolkit/steeringgroup/decisions.html
"Moving code around as part of dependency refactoring is worth a feature release (x.y as opposed to x.y.z version number) for the affected packages. Changing an import to make use of a new package that came out of such refactoring is also worth a feature release."
OK, noted. Thanks, - C