After hearing about the dismay of various users of IntelliJ IDEA when Grails upgraded from 1.0 to 1.1, I got to wondering what sort of cost is involved in developing with technologies that are dependent upon other software.
I see this as an area where open source technologies may have an advantage, as the beta and milestone pre-releases allow developers of related products to update their products in parallel.
I will be curious to see how the developers of Grails and the various plugins cope with the inevitable versioning issues that will arise once Spring 3 is officially released.
In theory it shouldn't be a big deal, but it's inevitable that there will be companies out there with the "If it ain't broke, don't fix it" approach to upgrading.
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