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From: Drew Adams <drew.adams@oracle.com>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>,
	Emanuel Berg <moasenwood@zoho.eu>,
	help-gnu-emacs <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
Subject: RE: [External] : Re: [OFFTOPIC] Semver
Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2021 17:00:12 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <SA2PR10MB4474C150494B198AF1D4FE7FF31B9@SA2PR10MB4474.namprd10.prod.outlook.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8UuWHnZ89S1OFh54opu_t_SVvm1JJ2AQX+Uu_3HkaWbjg@mail.gmail.com>

> Yeah exactly. When you see a new major version in a semantically
> versioned program/library, the emotion you feel is not excitement but
> anxiety: what did they break this time? Is it something I was attached
> to?
> 
> Of course, from the maintainer’s side, the situation is reversed:
> “Woo! 57.0, we can finally drop that legacy API we’ve had to support
> for the last several years, and that has been holding us back from
> refactoring a whole subsystem because that would break every user of
> that API!”

This.

On the other hand, with free software one can
usually expect that the maintainers are also users. ;-)

      parent reply	other threads:[~2021-07-06 17:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-06-26 18:05 Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...? Colin Baxter
2021-06-26 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-26 19:38   ` Colin Baxter
2021-06-27  5:47     ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28  3:56 ` mrf
2021-06-28  4:22   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-28  5:29     ` Colin Baxter
2021-06-28  5:30     ` mrf
2021-06-28  5:14   ` Colin Baxter
2021-06-29 10:07   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-29 22:11     ` [OFFTOPIC] Semver (was: Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...?) Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-30 19:49       ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-30 20:00         ` [OFFTOPIC] Semver Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 21:30           ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06  9:28             ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-06  9:54               ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 11:49                 ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-06 16:29                   ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 17:00                   ` Drew Adams [this message]

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