From: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
To: Lea Wiemann <lewiemann@gmail.com>
Cc: "Randal L. Schwartz" <merlyn@stonehenge.com>,
Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>, Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method
Date: Sat, 31 May 2008 12:50:14 +0100 (BST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0805311248050.13507@racer.site.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <484078C7.7020008@gmail.com>
Hi,
On Fri, 30 May 2008, Lea Wiemann wrote:
> I'm honestly not too keen on sacrificing time (or code prettiness) on
> 5.6 compatibility, so if there are no reasons besides the memory leak to
> move away from throw/catch, perhaps we can just keep using it?
I think your opinion would change dramatically if you were stuck on a
platform with Perl 5.6. In general, I deem it not nice to sacrifice
backwards compatibility just because _you_ do not need it.
I mean, by that argument we could scrap the whole Git UI and rewrite it
anew: a lot of compatibility warts would Just Go Away.
Ciao,
Dscho
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-05-31 11:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-30 4:43 [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add rev_parse method Lea Wiemann
2008-05-30 7:03 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-05-30 9:59 ` Petr Baudis
2008-05-30 15:15 ` Merging strategy for extending Git.pm (was: [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add rev_parse method) Lea Wiemann
2008-05-30 23:20 ` Merging strategy for extending Git.pm Junio C Hamano
2008-05-31 11:38 ` Merging strategy for extending Git.pm (was: [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add rev_parse method) Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-31 12:42 ` Merging strategy for extending Git.pm Lea Wiemann
2008-05-31 12:52 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-30 20:28 ` [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add rev_parse method Junio C Hamano
2008-05-30 9:50 ` Petr Baudis
2008-05-30 20:27 ` [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method Lea Wiemann
2008-05-30 21:05 ` Petr Baudis
2008-05-30 21:25 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-30 21:44 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-05-30 21:59 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-05-30 22:03 ` Randal L. Schwartz
2008-05-30 22:05 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-05-30 22:19 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-05-31 11:50 ` Johannes Schindelin [this message]
2008-05-31 12:17 ` Support for old Perl versions Petr Baudis
2008-05-31 12:32 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-05-30 21:49 ` [PATCH] perl/Git.pm: add parse_rev method Petr Baudis
2008-05-31 13:52 ` [PATCH v2] " Lea Wiemann
2008-06-01 3:17 ` [PATCH v3] " Lea Wiemann
2008-06-01 3:17 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-06-01 17:38 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-06-01 21:54 ` Miklos Vajna
2008-06-01 22:51 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-06-02 4:59 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-06-02 13:51 ` Lea Wiemann
2008-06-01 23:09 ` [PATCH v4] perl/Git.pm: add get_hash method Lea Wiemann
2008-06-01 23:24 ` Lea Wiemann
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