[development] Drupal 5 incremental release?

[Neil Drumm]

On 7/21/07, Larry Garfield <larry at garfieldtech.com> wrote:
> On Saturday 21 July 2007, 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.
>
> As I understand it, the policy for intra-version upgrades (5.x->5.y, etc.) has
> been "don't break anything unless you really really really have to for
> security" (e.g., swapping out an XML-RPC library mid-version.)  I think
> that's a good policy to maintain.

Yes, that is the policy. API fixes, such as
http://drupal.org/node/135926, are sometimes okay as well, after a bit
of scrutiny.

> I don't know enough about the supposed 5.x-dev breaks to say if they count,
> but I am running 5.x-dev on a site that just launched because I needed some
> of its bugfixes, and so far nothing has blown up.  It's even survived an
> upgrade to jQuery 1.1.3.1. :-)

I am running any sites which I can, including a live clients' site or
two, on 5.x.

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Neil Drumm
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