Le Mer 2 Février 2005 09:52, Stephen Quinney a écrit : > On Wed, Feb 02, 2005 at 08:23:20AM +1100, Matthew Palmer wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 04:46:51PM +0000, Stephen Quinney wrote: > > > The changes between major versions of Request Tracker are > > > typically substantial and one usually wants the opportunity to > > > test an installation of the new version alongside the old > > > version. If a user has made lots of local alterations (via RT's > > > overlay system) they probably won't work without being updated to > > > the new API. This method gives people a much easier upgrade path. > > > > The same could be said of a lot of packages in Debian. Why can't > > users do roughly the same thing as they do for every other > > application in Debian -- test new releases of software separately > > before they go running around dumping them on production boxes? > > I don't think most Debian packages positively encourage their users > to extend and modify the interface in the way that RT does. some does. but a lot of the ones that do permit that have nice and kludgy mechanism to allow easy migrations from one version to the other. IIUC RT has some problems in ``BC'' between the version, and that is sth that I consider beeing a grave upstream problem. So for my part, I understand, and even support your point. -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O OOO http://www.madism.org
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