On 02.09.2010 10:57, Branko Čibej wrote:
On 02.09.2010 09:20, Bojan Smojver wrote:
On Thu, 2010-09-02 at 09:15 +0200, Guenter Knauf wrote:
hmm, I thought adding a function is not a problem - only
changing/removing - or?
Adding is a problem too. If someone links against newer minor version,
this program should work against older minor version too. However, older
minor version will not have that function, so it may not work
I don't interpret our versioning rules that way ...
http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html says explicitly, "Compatibility
with prior minor versions is not guaranteed" for both source and binary
compatibility.
However, you certainly cannot retroactively add a function to 1.4.x that
was not already present in 1.5.0. So I expect you meant "micro version"
above, rather than "minor version".
... or using the terminology of the cited document "patch" version. Yes,
I would guess both Günter and Bojan meant patch version. So lowest
branch to change is 1.5.
Regards,
Rainer
