On 5/3/19 2:08 AM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
On May 3, 2019, at 7:35 AM, Frank Scheiner <frank.scheiner@web.de> wrote: That's true for all code, if the interface you use changes, you have to adapt your code.
reformat :If it were C code, for example, an API break would actually cause the dependencies failing to build meaning you would see it on the development side and the broken stuff would never get shipped to
the customer.
For scripted code, the breakage happens on the customer’s side
... through all kind of subtle things ...
Writing good script is hard.
offside comment :
I want to print out the above and put it on a wall!
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