[Swift-devel] gram4.2 and swift

[Mihael Hategan]

On Thu, 2008-05-08 at 00:53 +0000, Ben Clifford wrote:
> On Wed, 7 May 2008, Mihael Hategan wrote:
> 
> > There's also the option of compile-time selection, though that would
> > prevent one from having both 4.0 and 4.2 services being used in the same
> > run.
> 
> That is undesirable to me - it puts a flag-day in place, that being the 
> day we choose to favour 4.2 over 4.0 in our releases.

Not necessarily. We distribute both. We let the users choose, depending
on their services.

Of course, I disliked this when it had to be done for gt3X, and I
equally dislike it now, so we'll probably go through the buggy and
problematic path of funny class loader stuff.

> 
> On the other hand, I would guess it is unlikely that 4.2 will see 
> appreciable deployment in production settings in the immediate future, so 
> this isn't something that needs sorting right away.
>