<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Feb 28, 2014 at 6:10 PM, Andrew Thompson <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:andrew@hijacked.us" target="_blank">andrew@hijacked.us</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">What about simply having one major release where both are valid, then<br>
one release where it is deprecated and then after that remove it. For<br>
projects which support the 'last two major versions', which seems to be<br>
the sanest way, that would allow them to migrate.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Are you referring to unicode source files? This is almost exactly how it is handled: R16 made it possible to have utf8 encoded sources, but latin1 was default; 17.0 makes utf8 the default; 18.0 will probably deprecate latin1 support and I suppose latin1 support will stop in 19.0. Or maybe it will stop in 18.0 already, given that the unicode support will be complete (even atoms).</div>
<div><br></div><div>I think the only big problem is when a project uses third party libraries that would need to be recompiled. Sometimes the source for the older versions might even not be available. </div><div><br></div>
<div>regards,</div><div>Vlad</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">
Andrew<br>
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