]] Simon McVittie | On Sat, 20 Nov 2010 at 21:58:56 +0100, Tollef Fog Heen wrote: | > | Upstreams are only meant to change the .pc filename when they make an | > | incompatible change to the API | > | > This seems to be the trend, but there's nothing in pkg-config's policies | > or best practices guide that specifies this. I'm a bit undecided on it, | > since «changing API» can be changing the name of an element of an | > obscure struct or changing the whole API around. One of them should | > cause an API bump, one should not, or at least so I think. | | OK, let me rephrase what I meant in RFC terms: when the API changes | incompatibly, upstreams MAY change the .pc filename; when the API remains | compatible, upstreams SHOULD NOT change the .pc filename. Does that sound | fair? :-)
Yes, sounds fair to me as best practice. -- Tollef Fog Heen UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
