Re: ANN: Introducing AdaBase - Thick database bindings for Ada

["J-P. Rosen" <rosen@adalog.fr>]

Le 21/05/2016 à 08:43, jrmarino a écrit :
> You are saying, for the sake of sujective cosmetics, that every
> current user has to fix their programs if they upgrade the library.
> E.g. If 100 people used it, and 250 programs were based on it, those
> 100 people would all to do the rework.  Frankly I can't think of
> anything more "anti-Ada" then intentionally breaking compatibility.

Of course, breaking compatibility has a cost - and benefits. Gratuitous
changes should be avoided, but it is a matter of evaluating the
cost/benefit ratio.

In the free software world, people often do not refrain from making
incompatible changes - a bit too often to my taste. OTOH, there is this
famous quote from the people who made "make":

The day after we released it, we realized that using the Tab was a big
mistake; but it was too late to make a change, we had more than 20 users...

Nowadays, millions of people are pested by this!
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