From dev-return-22760-apmail-apr-dev-archive=apr.apache.org@apr.apache.org Tue Dec 22 08:08:34 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@www.apache.org Received: (qmail 30804 invoked from network); 22 Dec 2009 08:08:34 -0000 Received: from hermes.apache.org (HELO mail.apache.org) (140.211.11.3) by minotaur.apache.org with SMTP; 22 Dec 2009 08:08:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 85309 invoked by uid 500); 22 Dec 2009 08:08:32 -0000 Delivered-To: apmail-apr-dev-archive@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 85176 invoked by uid 500); 22 Dec 2009 08:08:31 -0000 Mailing-List: contact dev-help@apr.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Id: Delivered-To: mailing list dev@apr.apache.org Received: (qmail 85168 invoked by uid 99); 22 Dec 2009 08:08:30 -0000 Received: from athena.apache.org (HELO athena.apache.org) (140.211.11.136) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with ESMTP; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:08:30 +0000 X-ASF-Spam-Status: No, hits=-9.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,RCVD_IN_DNSWL_HI X-Spam-Check-By: apache.org Received: from [140.211.11.9] (HELO minotaur.apache.org) (140.211.11.9) by apache.org (qpsmtpd/0.29) with SMTP; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 08:08:24 +0000 Received: (qmail 30744 invoked by uid 2161); 22 Dec 2009 08:08:04 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hilbert.heimnetz.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id BE9346057 for ; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:09:02 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <4B307E9E.2030901@apache.org> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 09:09:02 +0100 From: Ruediger Pluem User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686 (x86_64); en-US; rv:1.8.1.23) Gecko/20090823 SeaMonkey/1.1.18 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: APR Developer List Subject: Re: [discuss] Releasing pre-release APR References: <4B2FC35A.9030101@rowe-clan.net> <4B2FCE13.7070105@apache.org> <1261430039.1981.19.camel@shrek.rexursive.com> <4B2FF1BC.7000808@rowe-clan.net> <4B2FFCC8.7030503@apache.org> <4B2FFE60.3020505@rowe-clan.net> <1261436709.1981.25.camel@shrek.rexursive.com> In-Reply-To: <1261436709.1981.25.camel@shrek.rexursive.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit On 22.12.2009 00:05, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 17:01 -0600, William A. Rowe Jr. wrote: >> I don't think Bojan actually suggests we nuke it. > > No, no nuking at all. Just bit of skipping. > >> The suggestion is that all n.even releases would be ABI stable. n.odd >> releases would be purely alpha- and beta-, with clear notices to the >> user of what they are obtaining, and that updating is likely to break >> their applications which are ./configure'd --with-apr-dev or some >> similar flag. > > Yep, something like that. In other words, if we have say 1.8 released > and we are working towards 1.10, then anything in 1.9 is completely > API/ABI unstable and relying on it being present in 1.10 is a gamble. Of > course, the relationship between 1.8 and 1.10 would still obey the same > rules as we now have for say 1.3 to 1.4. > +1. But I guess it is better to defer this approach to 2.x. Regards Rüdiger