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yeah, it's been a nightmare converting all my old widgets... but in a way, I'm glad that projects like AwesomeWM have the freedom to break everyone's configs if

yeah, it's been a nightmare converting all my old widgets... but in a way, I'm glad that projects like AwesomeWM have the freedom to break everyone's configs if it means newer coding standards. The alternative -- retaining support for all previous versions, at the expense of bloat -- is much less preferable.

mercurial 14y ago
It's debatable. In the real world, good APIs which evolve deprecate their obsolete parts instead of outright removing them. If that's too much bother, maybe it gets to show that APIs-as-configuration-files are a bad idea, especially with dynamic languages.
- pyre 14y ago
  Awesome is the only API-as-configuration-file that I know of which consistently breaks the API between point releases.