Nicolas Williams <Nicolas.Williams at Sun.COM> wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:29:36AM -0400, Stefan Teleman wrote:
> > Whomever controls the interfaces controls their stability. If Sun does
> > not controls the interfaces (which in this case it does not), then Sun
> > does not control their stability.
>
> We often pick a stability on the basis of community statements, history,
> ... A community could well state that some interface is stable, and
> still break it, and even break it without breaking their word -- we
> ourselves are allowed to do this at the right release boundaries. So
> you see, it's not just stated (and unstated) stabilities upstream, but
> also how their release trains differ in timing from ours.
Of course, yo uneed to know the people behind some statements. You e.g.
cannot believe if Linus Torvalds claims that the Linux kernel interfaces are
stable. The Linux kernel interfaces that cdrecord uses have been broken many
times since cdreord exists....
There are other FOSS projects that really delive interface stability and it
would be apropriate for Sun to honor this in the documentation.
Whether or not GDB could be called stable should match a view backwards to
older versions.
J?rg
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