On Fri, 2010-04-30 at 07:57 +0200, Kevin Kofler wrote: > But of course the underlying true issue is that Mozilla is refusing to > guarantee backwards compatibility for the interfaces pretty much all > existing apps used and in several cases still use, instead trying to force > everyone to port to their new public API. I can't judge whether the original > interfaces were so poorly designed they really can't be kept compatible > (which reflects poorly on Mozilla) or whether they're just adding a useless > wrapper because they refuse to stay compatible (which reflects even more > poorly on them). With the caveat that I'm not really familiar with the situation, I think that assessment is unfair. If Mozilla feels the private interfaces are suboptimal and wants to adjust the design before committing to long-term stability, I think that's a reasonable decision. Let he who gets everything right the first time throw the first stone. -- Matt -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
