Re: interface stability

2009-11-08 Thread David Woodhouse
On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 17:59 +0200, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: Under the new versioning scheme letter changes will retain binary compatibility. They will be bugfix only and no new features will be added. There wont be a 0.9.9 to avoid confusion with what we used to call 0.9.9 which is now

Re: interface stability

2009-11-08 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Sun, Nov 08, 2009, David Woodhouse wrote: I'm still trying to understand what this actually means in practice, and who the target audience is for the various branches. Presumably, most of the conservative OS distributions (Solaris, Enterprise Linux distros, various BSDs) will stick with

Re: interface stability

2009-09-14 Thread Mark Phalan
On 09/11/09 05:59 PM, Dr. Stephen Henson wrote: On Fri, Sep 11, 2009, Mark Phalan wrote: On 09/10/09 11:56 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I understand this. I'd like to know if 0.9.8l will be ABI/API compat with 0.9.8k - or at least that it is considered a bug if they are not ABI/API compat. I'm

Re: interface stability

2009-09-11 Thread Peter Waltenberg
Subject:Re: interface stability

Re: interface stability

2009-09-11 Thread Mark Phalan
On 09/10/09 11:56 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:23:38PM +0200, Mark Phalan wrote: In OpenSolaris we follow an interface stability classification system which marks interfaces according to how stable they are believed to be. You can see more information here if interested

Re: interface stability

2009-09-11 Thread Dr. Stephen Henson
On Fri, Sep 11, 2009, Mark Phalan wrote: On 09/10/09 11:56 PM, Kurt Roeckx wrote: I understand this. I'd like to know if 0.9.8l will be ABI/API compat with 0.9.8k - or at least that it is considered a bug if they are not ABI/API compat. I'm unclear as to what restrictions a 0.9.9x release

Re: interface stability

2009-09-10 Thread Kurt Roeckx
On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 02:23:38PM +0200, Mark Phalan wrote: In OpenSolaris we follow an interface stability classification system which marks interfaces according to how stable they are believed to be. You can see more information here if interested: http://opensolaris.org/os/community/arc