ons 2010-07-21 klockan 09:30 -0800 skrev Jeff Spaleta:
I'm not part of the zero regression fanclub. But I'd like to
help do
what is reasonable to minimize the frustration of introducing a new
way of doing things. The deprecation warnings are reasonable to me. We
aren't going to reduce that frustration to zero of course. But we sure
as hell aren't going to blunt the unavoidable pitchforks by telling
sysadmin to just suck it up. I'd like to find a way to sell them on
short term pain for long term gain from the sysadmin point of view.
I'm a sysadmin and I welcome improvements in software even if it means I
have to change how I do things. I really do have bigger things to worry
about than some small change in some command line tool.
However, I agree with Chris Adams, make things backwards-compatible when
it's practical. Putting some wrapper code in chkconfig is exactly the
right thing to do. It should be simple (it doesn't have to be perfect,
it can ignore --level for example) and it would keep a lot of shell
script from breaking.
-jef"I'd tell you to go out and hug a sysadmin but that
probably just
get you punched"spaleta
"Beware of the sysadmin!" :D
/Alexander