On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:54:40PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > From my user experience and what I see on a number of coworkers, users > > tend to make big jumps when they need a new feature, so in practice, > > not offering the option in a version or two would probably not affect > > most users, especially the ones still relying on the old behaviour. So > > I don't see much benefit in waiting for repurposing the option. > > The benefit is that if it does turn out to be a regression, early > adopters will complain to us because their scripts have stopped > working and we get a chance to back out the change without having to > worry about others who have started to rely on the option.
Indeed you're right. I forgot the case of the old script relying on the silently ignored parameter! Regards, Willy -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
