On 22.12.2009 00:05, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:01 -0600, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >> I don't think Bojan actually suggests we nuke it. > > No, no nuking at all. Just bit of skipping. > >> The suggestion is that all n.even releases would be ABI stable. n.odd >> releases would be purely alpha- and beta-, with clear notices to the >> user of what they are obtaining, and that updating is likely to break >> their applications which are ./configure'd --with-apr-dev or some >> similar flag. > > Yep, something like that. In other words, if we have say 1.8 released > and we are working towards 1.10, then anything in 1.9 is completely > API/ABI unstable and relying on it being present in 1.10 is a gamble. Of > course, the relationship between 1.8 and 1.10 would still obey the same > rules as we now have for say 1.3 to 1.4. >
+1. But I guess it is better to defer this approach to 2.x. Regards Rüdiger
