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Hi Grant,
On Tue, 15 Dec 2009, Grant Harris wrote:
> Thanks for that contribution - that is a good articulation of my view -
> plugins that matter can and will be made to work and the odd one that
> doesn't is likely to be fixed in short order if someone has the need.
I would agree that backwards compatibility needs to be shed, if it were
necessary. But it is not! We can just keep the existing interfaces, and
add new ones, deprecating the old ones. That way, old plugins will work
(however, in the process they might become slower due to additional
proxying).
That way, you can appeal to developers without losing our most valuable
assets: our users. (Remember: we only continue to get funding if we keep
being popular.)
Ciao,
Dscho
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