manual bootstrap in 1.18

[Tim Penhey]

On 04/03/14 15:22, Andrew Wilkins wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 4, 2014 at 12:54 AM, William Reade
>     However, blocking 1.18 on this change would be most unhelpful to
>     many people, so we would like to simply switch off manual provider
>     bootstrap for the 1.18 release; this would *not* be a regression,
>     because we didn't have manual bootstrap in 1.16.
> 
> 
> Just echoing, this *is* a regression. "null" was in 1.16.something, and
> fixed up during the 1.17 series. People are relying on it already.

Just putting a me too here.

In favour of deprecating the current behaviour and supporting the new,
but we shouldn't change behaviour completely in one release.

Tim