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Re: [hybi] Versioning is a anti-pattern

Julian Reschke <julian.reschke@gmx.de> Sun, 10 October 2010 14:26 UTC

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Subject: Re: [hybi] Versioning is a anti-pattern
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On 03.09.2010 14:34, Patrick McManus wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-09-03 at 02:56 -0400, John Tamplin wrote:
>
>
>> Unless the final spec makes FF4.0 (and I don't know how much lead time
>> it would take to get it in), then it is likely to exist there for some
>> non-trivial period of time.
>
> For those that aren't aware, I'm working with the Mozilla Websockets
> team. And with that hat on I can say FF is unlikely to deploy -76 in FF
> 4 - except perhaps under a clearly for-experiment-only namespace which
> is subject to breakage at any time.
>
> That being said, I'd love to get the specification to a state where we
> could ship something based on draft-ietf-* with some confidence that at
> least the basics were stable. We've got some work to do.

...the related Bugzilla bug is 
<https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=602028>, btw...

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