Re: [HACKERS] RE: cvs-commit-digest V1 #856

On Tue, 1 Feb 2000, Don Baccus wrote:

> At 10:52 PM 2/1/00 -0500, Tom Lane wrote:
>
> >Peter, you need to have a little more respect for stability of
> >library APIs. Gratuitous breaking of backwards compatibility
> >is not the done thing around here. It's especially not done
> >without any discussion.
>
> I thought we went over this a week ago...was I dreaming?
>
> PG is intended to be a PROFESSIONAL product. You don't arbitrarily
> break things for the hell of it.
>
> PG has CUSTOMERS. Not in the formal "we bought it" sense, but in
> the moral and professional engineering sense.
>
> You don't screw your customers without good reason, and when you
> do you at least provide them cushions and soft mattresses and
> advance notice. Especially advance notice. And if you do screw
> them, you do so after you explore alternatives and come to realize
> that there is no other course open to you. And you offer them
> a condom (i.e. an upgrade path).
>
> Because they depend on you.
>
> Is professionalism so hard to understand?

Don ... I try to stay out of stuff like this but ... TONE IT DOWN!

Peter is making mistakes, granted, but he is making them in a *NONE
PRODUCTION RELEASE* code tree ... if he messes with a -STABLE release in
this way, fine, your responses are justified, but, right now, I don't
think they are ...

Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy
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