Vasileios Lourdas wrote:
On Saturday 21 July 2007 20:08:57 Caleb Gilbert wrote:
You said the current 5.x-dev breaks with contributed modules. But you don't see a reason not to release it?!
It's been quite common that contributed modules have required some updating along with the Drupal core upgrades (even the incremental ones). If there is a new policy which says that a Drupal core upgrade should never result in any contributed modules being broken, that seems like a new precedent.
It depends on the meaning of the word "upgrade". Upgrade should probably stand for 5.x -> 6, whereas update 5.x -> 5.y, where x < y. In the latter case, yes, no modules should ever be broken. That's the meaning of the API freeze in the first place.
Unfortunately, we have in the past had to fix bugs in such a way that caused contrib modules to break. This happened in one of the later 4.7 updates.