Backwards compatibility of kdelibs/experimental

[Thiago Macieira]

Em Terça-feira 08 Dezembro 2009, às 16:08:43, Lubos Lunak escreveu:
>  Hello,
> 
>  I have a question of about backwards compatibility of KNotificationItem
>  and kdelibs/experimental in general and I don't mean just API. API is
>  simple, there is no guarantee, but I don't see anything about the rest in
> http://techbase.kde.org/Policies/New_KDE_Library_API_Policy .
> 
>  For example, KNotificationItem from 4.3.x does not work in 4.4.x workspace
> (the D-Bus name has changed). Fortunately, there is still the old systray
> mechanism, so there's no big loss of functionality as long as the old
>  library is still around. And yes, there are apps outside of KDE SC that
>  use it.
> 
>  Is it acceptable that something like that no longer works, and regardless
>  of the answer, could it be added to the wiki page?

Binary/behaviour compatibility includes D-Bus interfaces. So renaming an 
interface, removing methods, etc. is not BC.

Anyway, this was an experimental lib. The D-Bus protocol should also be 
considered experimental there.

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