On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 03:24:11PM -0400, James Carlson wrote: > Nicolas Williams writes: > > Well, no, Stable interfaces can be obsoleted, but they can't be removed > > just any old time: only at minor releases and only with sufficient > > forewarning (1 year, IIRC?), with warnings posted on update release > > notes and in other places. > > That's part of it. Besides the notice (not sure where that is), the > actual removal itself must be reviewed by the ARC and likely would > have to explain either why there's no more third party software left > that would be affected or why we needn't care. That might be > difficult.
Right, but while legacy rc support will almost certainly (I guess) remain in the next minor release, I would not say it would say "forever" for any value of 'forever' > three/four years :) Nico --
