> > Right. My feeling is that we must make it possible for a 6.6 server to
> > accept connections from 6.5 (and earlier) clients, or the upgrade will
> > be too painful at large sites.
>
> But, we've had protocol changes before that breaks backward
> compatibility...why is this all of a sudden a problem? As long as this is
> a "known" issue for an upgrade (something for the 'migrating to...'
> section of the HISTORY file), I personally see no reason why the protocol
> can't mature/change...
No reason to change the protocol when we don't need to.
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