On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 14:15:27 -0400, Zach Beane xach@xach.com wrote:
In my experience, upgrading is not a big deal. If your site works fine, there's not really a compelling reason to upgrade. (I still have some sites running tbnl-0.3, from early 2005). If you have problems, upgrading to the latest version is not generally a difficult process. The fear of upgrading can be a bigger obstacle than actually upgrading.
What Zach says.
FWIW, I /try/ to adhere to the following policy:
- Every functional change is mentioned in the ChangeLog file, "cosmetic" changes and otherwise irrelevant re-organizations sometimes aren't.
- For Bugfixes and "small" changes, only the patch version number is released (for example from 0.8.3 to 0.8.4), for new functionality or bigger changes the minor version is bumped (for example from 0.7.3 to 0.8.0). The major version number will only be increased once I'm confident that the library is fairly stable - expect this to take more time.
- I try to be backwards-compatible if possible. Incompatible changes will be explicitly announced.
HTH, Edi.