Only major versions can break binary. The versioning policy for stdcxx can be found here..
http://stdcxx.apache.org/versions.html Travis -----Original Message----- From: Liviu Nicoara [mailto:nikko...@hates.ms] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 3:52 AM To: dev@stdcxx.apache.org Subject: Re: STDCXX-1071 numpunct facet defect I thought I replied but I see no trace of my post: On 09/27/12 20:27, Martin Sebor wrote: > On 09/27/2012 06:41 AM, Liviu Nicoara wrote: >> On 09/26/12 20:12, Liviu Nicoara wrote: >>> I have created STDCXX-1071 and linked to STDCXX-1056. [...] >>> >>> I am open to all questions, the more the better. Most of my opinions >>> have been expressed earlier, but please ask if you want to know more. >>> >> >> I am attaching here the proposed (4.3.x) patch and the timings results >> (after re-verifying the correctness of the timing program and the >> results). The 4.2.x patch, the 4.3.x patch, the test program and the >> results file are also attached to the incident. > > The patch isn't binary compatible. We can't remove data members > in a minor release. We could only do it in a major release. I posted two patches, one for 4.3.x and one for 4.2.x (the latter is binary compatible). My understanding was that minor version revisions may break binary compatibility. Liviu
