DeviceKit-power release next Monday

[Kévin Ottens]

On Wednesday 7 October 2009 18:46:45 Mikhail Gusarov wrote:
> Twas brillig at 12:24:43 07.10.2009 UTC-04 when david at fubar.dk did gyre
> and gimble:
> 
>  DZ> FWIW, I think our version numbers should probably be changed so it
>  DZ> is easier for distros to coordinate this effort. E.g. we should
>  DZ> probably have
> 
>  DZ>  <feature-version>.<abi-version>.<release>
> 
> That'd be nice.

Well, if feature-version is incremented when a non backward compatible ABI 
change is made, I'll be able to live with this.

>  DZ> No, it is public ABI that is subject to change.
> 
> Okay. As a sidenote: are there public APIs which are essentially frozen
> at all? Even POSIX changes, though slowly.

Well, there's a difference between making it deep frozen and keeping backward 
compatibility. That's definitely what worries me most here, I'm not against 
every ABI change, but backward compatibility breakages will definitely make my 
life unnecessarily harder.
 
Regards.
-- 
Kévin 'ervin' Ottens, http://ervin.ipsquad.net
"Ni le maître sans disciple, Ni le disciple sans maître,
Ne font reculer l'ignorance."
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