breaking BIC for new addon libs in minor releases (was: Re: Goals? How are we doing?)

[Andreas Pakulat]

On 06.05.08 17:56:11, Friedrich W. H. Kossebau wrote:
> Am Dienstag, 6. Mai 2008, um 17:17 Uhr, schrieb Andreas Pakulat:
> > On 05.05.08 21:24:52, Andras Mantia wrote:
> > > Actually would be nice to see at least a KDevPlatform release. I know
> > > its hard, but maybe makes sense, just like kdelibs was released before
> > > the actual KDE 4.0.0.
> >
> > Well, we could probably do that, but without any guarantees regarding
> > binary compatibility. Especially not for the interfaces, shell, project,
> > sublime, language and vcs libraries.
> 
> I have a similar problem. I know at least one person which would like to make 
> use of the Okteta libraries (implementing a specialised ByteArrayModel) in a 
> 3rd-party project after the 4.1 release. But I know for sure the API will 
> change for 4.2 again, so I do not install any headers. Right now I had to 
> tell him "bad luck"...
> 
> I did not find an explicit rule for this on techbase.kde.org, just remember 
> the general unwritten rule "ensure binary interface compatibility in minor 
> releases".

Thats currently only a rule for kdelibs+kdepimlibs - AFAIK. Other
modules in KDE/ need to decide on that themselves, for example kdegames
broke BC in their libkdegames library between 4.0 and 4.1. The techbase
page explicitly says that the guidelines are not mandatory.

Andreas

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