Simon Willnauer wrote: > I just talked to Robert about refactoring of smartcn for the next > releases > 2.9. Robert raised a question if we should mark smartcn as > experimental so that we can change interfaces and public methods etc. > during the refactoring. Would that make sense for 2.9 or is there no > such thing as a back compat policy for modules like that. > > simon > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org > > Contrib modules are not required to support back compat in any way currently - but they can also each have any more restrictive policy that we want. I consider Highlighter to be 1.4 right now (even though thats not explicit anywhere).
Warning users that you don't plan on promising back compat with experimental warnings seems like a good idea to me. -- - Mark http://www.lucidimagination.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org
