[albatross-users] New release?

[Matt Goodall]

On Sat, 2003-09-20 at 22:14, Tim Churches wrote:
> I agree. There is now a sufficiently large installed base of Albatross
> apps that serious consideration needs to be given to backwards
> compatibility. If new features are introduced, they need to have new
> names, and the old ones need to be retained with their original names -
> possibly marked as deprecated, but still retained so that existing apps
> don't break. Just like Python, which has achieved a remarkable level of
> backwards compatibility (not perfect, but very good, with excellent
> signposting of future breakage).

I completely agree but, just to clarify, we're not talking about a new
feature here.

I found a potentially serious problem with the page module loader where
entries in sys.modules can get overwritten. As you can imagine, that
causes some seriously strange problems ;-). See
http://www.object-craft.com.au/pipermail/albatross-users/2003-August/000826.html.

Cheers, Matt

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