On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 14:40 -0500, Peter Memishian wrote:
> [1] We have several architectural comittees at Sun, and unfortunately
> they did not all agree on the original interpretation of "Evolving".
> PSARC, which reviews the vast majority of core kernel, library, and
> command interfaces that you are likely to use, has consistently viewed
> "Evolving" as "Stable".
well, strictly speaking, we (PSARC) viewed it as "Stable - Episilon";
others viewed it more as Unstable+Epsilon.
In practice, there are some very rare cases where we may permit certain
incompatible changes to Stable interfaces as well, so the difference in
practice between Evolving and Stable was unmeasurably small; moreover,
we also permit incompatible changes to newly introduced interfaces
before they first appear in a "real" release (and betas such as Solaris
Express don't count).
- Bill
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