Re: ketchup script and 3.0

[david]

On Tue, 7 Jun 2011, Matt Mackall wrote:

> But my point is that if we have adhoc transitions, we will encounter the
> "fix all the scripts and websites" pain at every transition. And tools
> that are managed via distros and the like can literally take years to
> get into the hands of users. It'd be nice if the copy of ketchup shipped
> in <enterprise distro> just worked 3 years from now because 4.0 wasn't a
> surprise.

if you special case 2.4->2.6, and make the default that 4.0 > 3.x, 5.0 > 
4.x, etc won't things 'just work' for the forseeable future?

David Lang
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