25/05/2018 11:35, Shreyansh Jain: > While reading through [1], I couldn't understand if __rte_experimental > and EXPERIMENTAL tag removed from code and map file, respectively, are > categorized under ABI breakage or not. Thus, whether deprecation for > them should be sent or not in a release cycle for removal in subsequent > release. > > Logically, EXPERIMENTAL APIs are not part of stable APIs/ABIs and hence > they don't really break an ABI. Thus, deprecation for them doesn't make > sense. (or, as Luca noted on IRC, removing experimental is like > de-deprecation :) )
I agree, no need for prior notice, in my opinion. > On IRC, Luca pointed out that in one of the Tech Board meeting minutes > [2], this was recorded but that too has slight ambiguity to it. > > Any thoughts on this? Or, was this documented somewhere other than [1]? > > [1] http://dpdk.org/doc/guides/contributing/versioning.html > [2] https://dpdk.org/ml/archives/dev/2017-October/079961.html (Section 2-b) >
