Frank Schönheit - Sun Microsystems Germany wrote: > Not sure we need versioning, but we definitely need to way to > (carefully) break compatibility. As I've been told, this has been a > topic on this week's engineering steering committee meeting ...
I think we never will allow breaking compatibility at arbitrary points in time, but rather allowing for some controlled "big bang" changes, like e.g. at a major release. That would mean that the changes we are talking about must be collected and prepared so that they are ready at the "big bang" event. OTOH this means that every deveveloper must be able to plan for that and so we need a long running schedule for that. I think this would be a good compromise. If something "bites" me for years, it is bearable to wait for just a few more months before it can be fixed. Regards, Mathias -- Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer OpenOffice.org Engineering at Sun: http://blogs.sun.com/GullFOSS Please don't reply to "[email protected]". I use it for the OOo lists and only rarely read other mails sent to it. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
