From: <jc...@fe...> - 2004-04-16 13:38:23
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On Friday 16 April 2004 08:18, Rafael Laboissiere wrote: | * Alan W. Irwin <ir...@be...> [2004-04-15 15:51]: | > I recognize your concern, yet all viable software projects do have | > backwards incompatible API changes from time to time. I do feel we | > should manage change as best we can to minimize the pain, but a | > blanket prohibition on backwards incompatible changes for all time | > is not the correct approach in my view. | | I never meant a blanket prohibition, please. This is what I wrote: | | * Rafael Laboissiere <rla...@us...> [2004-04-15 12:26]: | > Backward-incompatible changes to the API are a real PITA and should | > be hardly avoided. | | There are cases where backwards incompatible changes are really | needed, but in the case of plimage, I think that the change is too | gratuitous and is not worth doing. What do the other developers | think? (Arjen already expressed agreement with me.) Do we have a color plimage()? When we have one we could restart this thread. Joao |