On Mon, Mar 12, 2012 at 01:54:40PM -0500, Jonathan Nieder wrote:

Willy Tarreau wrote:

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From my user experience and what I see on a number of coworkers, users
tend to make big jumps when they need a new feature, so in practice,
not offering the option in a version or two would probably not affect
most users, especially the ones still relying on the old behaviour. So
I don't see much benefit in waiting for repurposing the option.

The benefit is that if it does turn out to be a regression, early
adopters will complain to us because their scripts have stopped
working and we get a chance to back out the change without having to
worry about others who have started to rely on the option.

Indeed you're right. I forgot the case of the old script relying
on the silently ignored parameter!

Regards,
Willy