Re: [Tarantool-patches] [PATCH] box: remove unicode_ci for functions

[Nikita Pettik <korablev@tarantool.org>]

On 09 Dec 16:39, Konstantin Osipov wrote:
> * Kirill Yukhin <kyukhin@tarantool.org> [19/12/09 16:28]:
> > > Who is "we"?
> > 
> > We are team of Tarantool developers working for MailRU Group.
> 
> Actually this decision was made without any discussions - it was
> quickly hacked in back in 2018. Maybe you and Nikita had some
> discussion prompted by Peter's firm stance that we should
> uppercase, but that was it.

I didn't participate in any discussion at that time.
When I came in Tarantool decision had been already taken.
I do not know who is responsible for that.

IMHO rather than attempt to fix it now, I'd better improve tutorials
and docs by placing most common examples/mistakes at the front page.

> I protested several times while I
> was still on board but had not anticipated how bad the solution
> would turn out to be when it is implemented to follow through on
> time. Now it is still not to late - bit it's getting more late
> every day.
> 
> What we learned since then is that every single newbie trips over
> it.
> 
> 
> > We had pretty much discussions internally on the matter and
> > came up with this decision: we won't break backward compatibility
> > in order to add some sugar.
> 
> What backward compatibility do you think will be broken?
> 
> 
> > 
> > > I don't see this has been discussed & rejected, so why are you
> > > thinking you can make this decision?
> > 
> > All I can see on the matter is issue #4467 which we agreed to
> > be broken by design. I see no solid proposals neither in discussions
> > nor in github issues on how it supposed to work. If it will occur -
> > we'll happily consider it.
> > 
> > > Maybe "we" instead of making "decisions" goes to users and
> > > customers and asks them what they expect?
> > 
> > Why not to ask if public demands free beer? Right now business
> > dictates us to work on other things.
> 
> Like Chris patch?
> 
> -- 
> Konstantin Osipov, Moscow, Russia