On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Jan De Moerloose <
[email protected]> wrote:

>  On 1/03/2011 18:04, Andrea Aime wrote:
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 1, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Jan De Moerloose <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Andrea,
>>
>> big thanks for the explanation, i think it's clear enough for me now.
>> In principle it means that we can't guarantee binary compatibility on
>> going from y to y+1.
>>
>
>  Well no, even going from x.y to x.y+1 there is no binary compatibility
> guarantee, that you get
> only when going from x.y.z to x.y.z+1
>
> Exactly, x.y to x.y+1 is what i meant. Am i correct that the versioning
> page (
> http://docs.geotools.org/latest/developer/guide/conventions/version.html)
> seems to suggest otherwise ?
>
> Minor (second digit) is incremented whenever new features are added.
> Modules are* forward compatible* across minor versions, but usually not
> backward compatible.
>

Yep, the guide does not match at all the practice we adopted in the last few
years

Cheers
Andrea



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