I agree with Niclas, breaking source but not binary compatibility sounds like a strange set of difficult circumstances.
I'd got for a more simple definition of "Major Release - might break anything you're currently doing, please check the release notes". This is where I make a comment about changing all the package names... Cheers, Tom -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Niclas Hedhman Sent: 01 October 2009 08:08 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Release versioning On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Peter Firmstone <[email protected]> wrote: > -Major Release, new Features, Packages & API, API Changes that Break Source > (compile time) compatibility but not binary (runtime) compatibility. What are you going to call a release that breaks binary compatibility? Personally, I think this requirement is too ambitious. If source compatibility is broken, you might as well allow for binary compatibility to break as well. I doubt the constraint is valuable enough, and instead try to keep both source and binary compatibility as long as possible and aggregate changes into any major releases very seldomly. Cheers -- Niclas Hedhman, Software Developer http://www.qi4j.org - New Energy for Java I live here; http://tinyurl.com/2qq9er I work here; http://tinyurl.com/2ymelc I relax here; http://tinyurl.com/2cgsug www.sucdenfinancial.com Sucden Financial Limited, Plantation Place South, 60 Great Tower Street, London EC3R 5AZ Telephone +44 203 207 5000 Registered in England no. 1095841 VAT registration no. GB 446 9061 33 Authorised and Regulated by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) and entered in the FSA register under no. 114239 This email, including any files transmitted with it, is confidential and may be privileged. It may be read, copied and used only by the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify [email protected] immediately and delete it from your computer system. We believe, but do not warrant, that this email and its attachments are virus-free, but you should check. Sucden Financial Limited may monitor traffic data of both business and personal emails. By replying to this email, you consent to Sucden Financial 's monitoring the content of any emails you send to or receive from Sucden Financial . Sucden Financial is not liable for any opinions expressed by the sender where this is a non-business email. The contents of this e-mail do not constitute advice and should not be regarded as a recommendation to buy, sell or otherwise deal with any particular investment. This message has been scanned for viruses by Mimecast.
