Re: Is the rails 2.0 scaffold system philosophically ( not technically? ) broken?

Breaking backward compatibility is a luxury that only open-source
developers can afford.   It costs nothing to lose customers if they
aren't paying.  If you need to maintain your customer base (like, for
example, Microsoft does) then you do anything to avoid breaking
backward compatibility.

See for example: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/archive/2006/11/06/999999.aspx

I personally was quite shocked to see that Rails 2 knowingly broke
things.  Extracting to a plugin I can deal with.  Outright removal is
shocking.

fredistic

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