> I stand by the position that it's way too late in the cycle for
> insufficiently-thought-out proposals for major behavioral changes.
I don't see how announcing this earlier in the dev cycle would help, at
all. The people who read -hackers have been using
standards-conforming-strings for years. Further, if we announce it now,
people have 4-5 months to get ready for it, assuming they were updating
to 9.0.0 anyway, which I doubt anyone is.
For this release, I'm already planning to have big "backwards
compatibility" section and web page with *lots* of warnings and
explanations, and because of the media around the release for once it
will be read.
I'd argue that Bruce is right; if we're not going to do it now, we might
as well stop pretending we ever are.
--Josh Berkus