Results of the discussion about parameters removal

Colin Ogilvie bugzilla at colinogilvie.co.uk
Wed Sep 5 20:00:00 UTC 2007


Max Kanat-Alexander wrote:
> 	We are expecting an extremely minor fraction of installations
> to change them. Thus constants are acceptable.
>   

Based on what evidence? Do we know how many installations have
customised them?

Surely the goal is to make it easier for people to upgrade -- forcing
them to change something that we ship, and could (potentially) break
their upgrade path seems to me to be a VERY bad idea.

Colin




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