From: Warren Young
Date: August 18 2004 4:31pm
Subject: Re: RELEASE: 1.7.11
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Darren McDonald wrote:
> Would you consider this new realse stable? 

Functionally stable, yes, but not interface-stable.  I have few special 
plans to change more interfaces, but there is a general sense that if I 
find more broken interfaces, this is the time to fix them.  I will 
always call out those changes in the ChangeLog, and I will try not to 
make it hard to move from one interface to the next.

> the ability grab results using ["fieldname"] is being cut (is that
> correct?) 

The same functionality is still available via the new interface 
row.lookup_by_name().  I'm not tied to that function name.  The only 
thing that must go is the overloaded operator.  The new function name 
could change and it wouldn't bother me.  I hope you do move to the new 
version, simply so I can get feedback on issues like this.

At some point, these new interfaces will be considered stable, and then 
they won't be changeable any more.  Now's the time to pipe up.

> Also will this work a-ok with gcc 3.3 now?

I'm not having any troubles.  If you do, patches will be thoughtfully 
considered. :)