On Mon, Aug 31, 2015 at 10:35 AM, Jay McCarthy <[email protected]> wrote: > I wouldn't say there is or has been a policy. There's advice based on > what the release process packages do. > > Generally, adding a new export or module is not considered > incompatibility. (Although technically it is, because it could reduce > the set of other packages that can be simultaneously installed.) > > Once you've committed to compatibility (by labeling a package with > version "1.0"), then any incompatible change should end up in a new > package/module, because at that point there's really no meaningful > connection between the old code and the new code, except maybe similar > purpose. > > I think in the case of gregor, since interface was removed, then it is > "incompatible" in the sense we normally mean in Racket. I think it > would come down to whether it was ever at 1.0 and whether it had > actually been used by anyone.
To clarify: no interfaces were removed. Interfaces were added. > > Jay > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Racket Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/racket-dev/CAKfDxxwo%3DisjfL5zKiEQMfqJ35zPS%3DSbCAkTMBbXiuZ5qe8FNA%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
