@raggi there are always tradeoffs, but these are implementation difficulty. And yes, there is no choice.
@raggi if users can update incrementally sprint at a time, you can move mountains. All at once & people revolt, stay behind. Remember 1.8.6?
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@wycats that happened to a ton of people with rails 2 also, though. minor vs. major breakage, if it takes an app down, is major to many -
@raggi rails is skating close to the edge. Major releases worry about compat/transition, but upgrade workload is high. Hard choices in 3.0. -
@wycats yup, it's hard. a choice to break compatibility and upgrade path should achieve: *significant* benefit, and predictable TTL -
@raggi http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2008/12/23/merb-gets-merged-into-rails-3/ …@dhh understood. Search "big bang rewrite"
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