17 Jun
2005
17 Jun
'05
3:06 p.m.
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 11:04 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
Chris McDonough wrote:
On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:12 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
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We have historically always had the opportunity to introduce features that preserve 100% b/c (like filestream iterators) in point releases. This has worked pretty well for the last few years.
I wasn't aware of this and I don't think it's a good policy.
Feature releases should be backward compatible. Bug-fix releases should be for bug fixes.
Yup. I think the reality of the situation was that there was such a long stretch between 2.7.0 and 2.8.0 that it became impractical to not do this. But if we go to time based major releases, this becomes irrelevant, so hopefully that works! - C