<div dir="ltr">> <span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">What is the main problem in breaking APIs? AFAIK is the need to fix the</span><br style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">plugins.</span><br><div><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">Not just plugins but every script that anyone has written against the QGIS API which can be a lot of internal scripts and processes. It really comes down to just a pain if it's not justified or needed. If we are forced to Python 3 and PyQt5 then it's a different story because we didn't really have much choice but all platforms will have to move it will be a nightmare having to maintain PyQt5/Python3+PyQt4/Python2.7 plugins and scripts.</span></div><div><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:13.1999998092651px;line-height:19.7999992370605px">- Nathan</span></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, 17 Apr 2015 at 20:17 Paolo Cavallini <<a href="mailto:cavallini@faunalia.it">cavallini@faunalia.it</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Il 17/04/2015 09:51, Radim Blazek ha scritto:<br>
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 8:43 PM, HAUBOURG<br>
> <<a href="mailto:regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr" target="_blank">regis.haubourg@eau-adour-garonne.fr</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Hi,<br>
>> again, I really can't understand squeezing the very next release now, a month before feature freeze.<br>
>><br>
>> For a major break, good practices should be:<br>
>> - announce it publicly at least two minor versions before<br>
<br>
+1<br>
<br>
>> - finish old branch on a LTR version and announce it so that feature are not added in that branch<br>
<br>
+1 (this is a good reason to have 2.8 followed by 3)<br>
<br>
>> - not break API too often. 2.0 was.. less than two years ago.<br>
<br>
This would be good, but I'm afraid is partly outside of our control<br>
(libray update by major distros).<br>
What is the main problem in breaking APIs? AFAIK is the need to fix the<br>
plugins. IMHO we should avoid leaving plugin authors alone; providing<br>
detailed instructions on how to upgrade the plugin, and if possible some<br>
scripts to fix most common cases, would make things less traumatic.<br>
Therefore I suggest evaluating this work, and investing in it.<br>
All the best.<br>
<br>
<br>
--<br>
Paolo Cavallini - <a href="http://www.faunalia.eu" target="_blank">www.faunalia.eu</a><br>
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