On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Mark Miller<markrmil...@gmail.com> wrote: > Simon Willnauer wrote: >> I just talked to Robert about refactoring of smartcn for the next >> releases > 2.9. Robert raised a question if we should mark smartcn as >> experimental so that we can change interfaces and public methods etc. >> during the refactoring. Would that make sense for 2.9 or is there no >> such thing as a back compat policy for modules like that. >> >> simon >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: java-dev-unsubscr...@lucene.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: java-dev-h...@lucene.apache.org >> >> > Contrib modules are not required to support back compat in any way > currently - but they can also each have any more restrictive policy that > we want. I consider Highlighter to be 1.4 right now (even though thats > not explicit anywhere). > > Warning users that you don't plan on promising back compat with > experimental warnings seems like a good idea to me. I think so too - done!
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