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by paulddraper 2627 days ago
> Don't like your thing? Make a new one. The old one isn't hurting you. And if it is, make a new one.

That is literally what a version is.

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Yea except you lock your users at an old version, for what?

Are you supporting old versions?

You don't have to break backwards compat to release new stuff.

It takes some serious design flaws to create a situation where you need more than a handful of foo2 and foo can't be augmented with sane defaults for whatever new side effect is created by foo2.

Support for the old version comes in minor/patch releases.