On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 11:08 PM Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 16, 2022 at 11:02 PM William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> > wrote: >> >> People will need to change their code to apr-2.x. But in the interim, >> apr-util 1.7.0 >> aught to have a compat layer to let authors adopt apu_ -> apr_ conventions >> ahead of time. Do we concur? > > > If a release is coming up, then sure: adding new APIs to 1.7 is totally > in-bounds.
There are 1.7 and 1.8 releases arriving this month. I meant to type 1.8 for the new compat wrappers, but you are right, we could inject macros any time. We just can't change exported symbols within the lifespan of 1.X where X is any integer.
