[Telepathy] AccountManager API?

Murray Cumming murrayc at murrayc.com
Tue Nov 25 09:31:32 PST 2008


On Tue, 2008-11-25 at 11:21 +0200, Alberto Mardegan wrote:
> ext Murray Cumming wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-10-21 at 11:37 +0100, Simon McVittie wrote:
> >> AccountManager and the currently-in-draft ChannelDispatcher are
> >> implemented by beta versions of Mission Control 5. They are not yet
> >> considered sufficiently stable for telepathy-glib to generate code (we'd
> >> have to break ABI all the time).
> > 
> > Do you know roughly when Mission Control 5 will be released? What
> > version numbers are these "beta versions of MC 5"?
> 
> I don't have a roadmap, but I was planning to release it once the API was stable 
> enough that there wouldn't be the need of ABI breaks after the release.

Thanks for the information.

In general, I don't believe it's possible for a first release to be
finished. You need to make unstable releases to get feedback so you can
make necessary fixes to API, so you can have confidence about declaring
it stable later.

> I could make a release just now, as it is in fact already usable, but then I 
> wouldn't be able to twist the APIs anymore. ;-)

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