Michael Meeks wrote:
On 24/11/16 18:34, Zolnai Tamás wrote:Can I have some code pointers from the last 5 years which shows when it is "absolutely necessary" to break compatibility? To see when it's acceptable to do such thing.I think its worth discussing it with the ESC if its significant.
Seconded. And if you look at the type reference history, you notice we were trying really quite hard not to break published API. It can be avoided almost all the time. I'll repeat the point I made during the ESC here: there's a price when one breaks things (API, work flows, interop) for users - beyond a certain limit, they consider your project not worth using anymore. Since the livelihood for a number of people on this list depends on LibreOffice having more users, instead of having less, I really rather feel quite strongly about those things. Cheers, -- Thorsten
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