[Bordeaux-threads-devel] Deprecating recursive locks

[Attila Lendvai]

> If the public API is changed in a not-backward-compatible way, I would
> suggest to release new ASDF system (bordeaux-threads2), and
> leave the old version available in quicklisp forever.
>
> People who are ready to use new version, just add bordeaux-thread2
> into their ASDF dependency. Others are able to use old version.
>
> This is a good practice. And it costs nothing.


IMHO it's not a good practice and it does cost complexity/noise.

you lose the clarity around the digital representation(s) of the
identity of the library. there's only one b-t library, and the fact
that it has changed in a way that made it incompatible with something
else does not change its identity.

but it's only the 0.02 of an outsider...

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