On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 6:49 AM, Steinsplitter Wiki <
steinsplitter-wiki(a)live.com> wrote:
I haven't followed this discussion, however i am
wondering why api is not
keep backward compatible. This will break a lot of stuff and i am wondering
why we need such changes in the [API]
We usually do. In this case, however, the advantages of changing the
default for new API users seems to outweigh the disadvantages of a
well-announced breaking change with a simple parameter to request
backwards-compatible output.
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Brad Jorsch (Anomie)
Software Engineer
Wikimedia Foundation