On Fri, Mar 30, 2012 at 8:00 PM, MinRK <benjami...@gmail.com> wrote: > Does adding to the API/ABI really make sense at this late point in the 2.1.x > series? This will be the first such change since the first stable 2.1 > release, as far as I know.
True, but there seems nothing wrong with improving 2.1 stable as long as there are people using it. It really depends on the risk of the change vs. its benefit. > I thought patch releases were only meant to contain bugfixes, etc., not API > expansion. It's fine if API/ABI are officially not fixed per major.minor, > but that seems to have been practice until this point, even if only by > coincidence. We've been moving away from the notion that the ABI version defines the product version, towards gradual improvement with backwards-compatibility guarantees. This seems more robust and less painful. Does anyone have strong opinions either way? -Pieter _______________________________________________ zeromq-dev mailing list zeromq-dev@lists.zeromq.org http://lists.zeromq.org/mailman/listinfo/zeromq-dev