Re: [oe-commits] Koen Kooi : Revert "ecore: catch up with the new SONAMEs; move to autosplitting"

[Graeme Gregory <dp@xora.org.uk>]

Michael 'Mickey' Lauer wrote:
> On Saturday 25 April 2009 20:17:22 Otavio Salvador wrote:
>   
>> This all is not a justification to break the whole World at dev. dev will
>> be the basis of next stable, and even more, it is the source of changes
>> for stable. So if we mess it up we'll end up with an very difficult to
>> maintain stable branch and an unusable dev.
>>     
>
> Yes, and I agree with all that, however there is the need to balance between 
> breaking everything and letting everything through. If -- like it is happening 
> right now -- people are paranoid about upgrade paths, then .dev moves to 
> something where no actual development happens.
>
> If you want to move forward, you will have to allow breakage now and then. 
> This is the way with all projects. If you don't allow that, people will move 
> elsewhere with their contributions and .dev will get stale rather than stable.
>
>   
In this case was it actually necessary to change the names?

I'm afraid I try and ignore E stuff as much as possible so I am totally
unclear about its state of development.

Graeme