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[Maxime Chambreuil <maxime.chambreuil@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree with Fabien. Having this conflicts field will also legitimate incompatibilities and they will remain forever. 


Not having this field will force people to collaborate and solve the conflict when discovered. 

My 2 cents. 

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Maxime Chambreuil 
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Hi Fabien, 



On Sat, Aug 17, 2013 at 4:03 PM, Fabien Pinckaers < fp@xxxxxxxxxxx > wrote: 





Hi, 


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Some community modules are incompatible with each other, or with core modules. It may not be desirable but it is sometimes unavoidable and is a fact today. 




Do you have some examples of incompatible modules where it's unavoidable? 
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Well... should I be more precise by saying unavoidable *in practice*? 

Modules do get published that solve the same or different problem in conflicting ways. Sometimes the conflict has technical roots, sometimes it's simply a different view on the best way to solve similar business problems. Or it can be as simple as having two unrelated modules adding a field to a core class and giving it the same name. That can be considered a bug yes, but it can be discovered late, and take a lot of time to fix properly with migration efforts etc. 

Avoiding that would require perfect upfront coordination between all community and core module authors, not to mention agreement on The Right Way to solve similar functional issues.... That, or an equally unpractical dictatorship kind of community governance model :) 


So full comptability between all modules existing and to come is definitely not practically feasible, hence the proposal to help manage the landscape. Bug tracking can then be used to discuss and follow the efforts to make the modules compatibles. 



Cheers, 

-sbi 

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