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> eventually far too much was built on it

Incumbents dilemma right?

Shouldnt it be possible to "Rip off the band-aid" when releasing, say Django-6.0 and rename things the way most people not already familiar with Django name things.

> names are rarely changed later

So refactoring APIs is really hard, especially when those are being consumed outside the organization... Shouldnt be an impossible task. After all, API versioning happen all the time internally...



Impossible, no. Worth it? The names are annoying, but not as annoying as the transition would.




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