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Re: XML output format
Posted by: Nick Bishop
Date: December 01, 2006 03:49PM

This type of change makes it difficult for developers to "future proof" their code.

I think there is a wrong way and a right way of making these types of changes. The right way of making this change would have been to commission a new option like

--xml-50 (and to take account of the even newer format in 5.0.26: --xml-5026)

and leave the old --xml option to produce the old format.

My complaint is that when developers write an application revolving around the then-current version (3.x), they have no way of knowing any of the possible, future changes of output format from using --xml (or any other output format).

While it is possible to keep running 3.x forever, it is not a reasonable solution. Organisations upgrade either as a security precaution, or to gain access to a specific functionality/ies. They do not want to scan screeds of release notes, and then to scan pages of (non-existent?) source code for any required changes.

Obviously, only a small proportion of changes are like this, but we do have to be careful.

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