On 05/23/2010 11:11 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
I still carry the scars from when mysql stopped building in brew, a couple years ago. Not just rawhide, but brew in general. Eventually (after a couple months of bewilderment) it emerged that the build
Frustrating I am sure - but it could have been the other way round - built fine and didnt work on the newer kernel ... or whatever.
Or what about a developer adding new features to mysql in your example - they would find themselves unable to compile as well quite possibly.
I think a better rule is - if there are problems, let us reasonably find and fix them.
The dont-touch-it-it-may-break philosophy is not obviously a better policy in all situations.
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