Matt Ingenthron wrote:
>
> >Perhaps. My sense is that some parts of OpenLDAP APIs are stable (and
> >some apps use only those parts) while other parts are unpredictable,
> >but that's just hearsay. It's up to the team owning OpenLDAP (whoever
> >that is or ends up being) to figure that out.
> 
> My apologies if this is obvious to some of you, but the paragraphs above 
> don't go with the ARC definitions here, does it?

Yes ;-)
I was specifically avoiding the words with double meaning (regular English
adjectives vs. Sun [current] interface taxonomy) to try to avoid confusion.
It's up to the project team delivering OpenLDAP to create the mapping
based on what they decide to guarantee.


> <http://opensolaris.org/os/community/on/os_dev_process/> (October 2008):
> 
>    The following are the (new) relevant Public taxonomy levels:
> 
>    Stable: The interface may only change incompatibly in a Major

Don't know what the above doc is but looks like it is out of date,
"Stable" went out of fashion several years ago.
Latest should be here:
http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc/policies/interface-taxonomy/
("should be" because page has been loading for ~5 minutes now and not done)


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Jyri J. Virkki - jyri.virkki at sun.com - Sun Microsystems

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