2008/11/10 Neil Jerram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I also think it will help us manage API incompatibilities better. I > think our default position from now on should be to maintain > source-level (API) compatibility, but it is inevitable that there will > be exceptions to this.
Any ideas for binary compatibility for the "micro" revisions? I recently discovered that a library compiled against 1.8.3 would core dump when used with an application compiled against 1.8.5. Operationally, not a big deal, really; I just recompiled the lib, but emotionally, it did give me that sinking feeling for a while, of maybe having yet another hard-to-find bug, or a system I cannot fully trust. :-( > the steady new feature model is better. The linux kernel got rid of the stable/unstable branch idea, and it's worked really really well. (the reasons why are widely documented) I'm for it. --linas
