Re: Prepping to break every past release...

Joshua D. Drake wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-03-04 at 21:27 +0000, Dave Page wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 9:23 PM, Joshua D. Drake <jd@commandprompt.com> wrote:
>>
>>> It is not easy to say. It is correct to say. I am under no illusion that
>>> this will not be painful. As far as "man weeks of recoding". Sorry, I
>>> know that will be tough.
>> It'll be a complete and utter waste of time, and make a horrible mess
>> of any client code that has to support multiple versions.
> 
> No actually it won't. It will make it easier for every product that uses
> 8.5 and above. Sometimes you have to cut the cord.

I think this sounds a lot like another request for a set of system views
with nicer names. That way, there'd be no break with backwards
compatibility, and you could use the easier names if you were on the
newer versions.

//Magnus