From: Dave Thomas <dave@...>
Date: 2007-12-26T09:45:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Legacy support (Was: Base64 not there makes Rails 2.0.2 fail to load in 1.9.0)


On Dec 25, 2007, at 6:27 PM, M. Edward (Ed) Borasky wrote:

> 1. Do we choose between bad PR for syntactical and semantic  
> differences
> or bad PR from performance? :)

I personally think that bad PR from stuff not working is probably  
fairly significant, particularly if a simple change to gems will let  
us warn people (and hence turn it from being a bug into a feature).


Dave