i just recently released a rails plugin. the old pre-agile-fan me
would have not done that because it would have seemed too early and
then everyone might not think i was a brilliant programmer when they
saw how simple my project was. now i see that i’m just an average
programmer so i’m starting to just release when something useful is
working ( http://crookedhideout.com/software ). this actually has
helped the stability and usefulness of the code i write. however …
this plugin generates a migration. it needs one table for it’s fun.
now that i’m getting ready to release 0.2.0 (a few days later, i had
the whole weekend off so i’m being productive atm ) i know that i’m
going to need to add a column to that table. damn it. what should i
do?
there is a small chance that there is someone out there actually using
it. so what i really need to do is generate another migration every
time i change the table somehow in any future releases. it’s probably
going to annoy a lot of people to see their db/migrate folder littered
it this way.
what’s the polite thing to do?