Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 12 Mar 2012 20:17:27 +0100 | From | Willy Tarreau <> | Subject | Re: stripping [PATCH] without losing later tags from mailed patches (Re: [ 02/12] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support) |
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On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:54:40PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > Willy Tarreau wrote: > > > From my user experience and what I see on a number of coworkers, users > > tend to make big jumps when they need a new feature, so in practice, > > not offering the option in a version or two would probably not affect > > most users, especially the ones still relying on the old behaviour. So > > I don't see much benefit in waiting for repurposing the option. > > The benefit is that if it does turn out to be a regression, early > adopters will complain to us because their scripts have stopped > working and we get a chance to back out the change without having to > worry about others who have started to rely on the option.
Indeed you're right. I forgot the case of the old script relying on the silently ignored parameter!
Regards, Willy
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