On Fri, 2018-05-25 at 11:49 +0200, Thomas Monjalon wrote: > 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.
Yeah that makes sense for me as well. > > 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) -- Kind regards, Luca Boccassi
