[Zope-dev] Zope 2.9 goals

Jim Fulton jim at zope.com
Fri Jun 17 11:04:18 EDT 2005


Chris McDonough wrote:
> On Fri, 2005-06-17 at 10:12 -0400, Jim Fulton wrote:
> 

...

> We have historically always had the opportunity to introduce features
> that preserve 100% b/c (like filestream iterators) in point releases.
> This has worked pretty well for the last few years.

I wasn't aware of this and I don't think it's a good policy.

Feature releases should be backward compatible. Bug-fix
releases should be for bug fixes.

Jim

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