Re: [AD] Re: binary compatibility check

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On Friday 24 February 2006 08:00, Peter Wang wrote:
> Your proposal is the right way to do things (especially for commercial
> libraries for which version numbers get bumped for non-technical
> reasons), but we know for sure that 4.2 binaries won't work with
> 4.3/4.4, so if we adopt it we would only do it from 4.3 onwards.
> And we would still not break backwards compatibility within a stable
> branch.

Right, which is what I said. This should be done with 4.3/4.4, or whenever the 
new API is complete enough that all the necessary structs are hidden, the old 
functions are in a compatibility lib, and the new functions are finalized 
(even if incompletely implemented).




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