I don't get why people expect no breaking changes
I don't get why people expect no breaking changes
Posted May 21, 2025 19:51 UTC (Wed) by mb (subscriber, #50428)In reply to: I don't get why people expect no breaking changes by vmpn
Parent article: Recent disruptive changes from Setuptools
It takes one package in the dependency chain that I don't have control over to break the build.
Please always keep in mind the benefit and the costs of breaking changes as a trade off.
A simple breakage that breaks 12k packages easily wastes several years of net human worktime. So is it worth it to save you 5 hours of maintenance cost during the next 5 years?
It's always easy to expect everybody to update and do the work, if you don't have to actually spend/pay the work.
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