Yes, that is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks!
-- Michal Schorm Software Engineer Core Services - Databases Team Red Hat -- On Mon, Jul 8, 2019 at 3:14 PM Georg Richter <ge...@mariadb.com> wrote: > > Hi Michal, > > about ABI breakage: > > Since MySQL 4.1 all public structures like MYSQL, MYSQL_FIELD have an opaque > pointer called extension, where we add new members if necessary. It will be > allocated and populated during runtime. > It is considered to be opaque, values from an extension will be retrieved via > api functions, e.g. mariadb_get_optionsv(). > > about version numbers: > MariaDB Connector/C has the version format MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH > > Once we released a MAJOR.MINOR version, we will apply bugfixes only and > increase the patch number. > If we add new functionality, we will increase the minor version, e.g. after > adding the binlog api we released 3.1 after 3.0 > If we have a lot of significant changes we bump the major version: E.g. in > 3.0 we added a new plugin concept, support for various tls libraries, bulk > processing for prepared statements, better unicode support etc. > > Usually you don't need to recompile applications when uograding from 3.0 to > 3.1. > > Hope this helps > > /Georg _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers Post to : maria-developers@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-developers More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp