Luke Daley-2 wrote
> 
> http://forums.gradle.org/gradle/topics/tasks_built_against_1_0_milestone_8_fail_if_run_against_1_0_milestone_7
> Basically, you can't compile a task with m8 and use it with m7.
> 

That would be guaranteeing (binary) _forward_ compatibility. We shouldn't
aim for that. Backwards compatibility is hard enough.


Luke Daley-2 wrote
> 
> I think we came to the conclusion that we do not guarantee backwards
> binary compatibility
> 

We do aim for backwards compatibility, but not forward compatibility.


Luke Daley-2 wrote
> 
> so the answer is to compile with the lowest version you need to support.
> 

Correct.

Cheers,
Peter

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