[XOM-interest] Iterable Elements
Olivier Lefevre
lefevrol at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 1 12:14:21 EDT 2007
Michael Kay wrote:
>> what would be the harm in such a policy?
>
> As a developer, it means you are supporting multiple versions, and you can
> no longer tell people who have a problem to solve it by moving to the latest
> release. That significantly affects maintenance costs.
If you want to be a player in the enterprise software world, supporting
multiple versions is a burden you have to be willing to bear anyhow:
support for version X long after it is no longer current is one of the
key characteristics of "enterprise" software (and hardware as well),
perhaps the defining one.
Your wish, on the developer side, to be eligible for enterprise-grade
software status while being able to use "just move on to the latest
release" as the answer to all problems strikes me as the mirror image of
the wish, on the customer side, to stick with Java 1.4 while enjoying
the very latest libraries: in both cases I would argue it is a case of
trying to have one's cake and eat it too. Neither position quite
computes, IMO.
-- O.L.
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