Re: [Ethereal-dev] Preparing for 1.0

["Mark H. Wood" <mwood@xxxxxxxxx>]

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On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Ulf Lamping wrote:
[snip]
> stable API/ABI: I don't know, if we need to have a stable API/ABI in a
> 1.0 release. It's just a matter of fact that this API is changing from
> version to version so why do we want to limit ourselves here? The
> proposed cleanup steps from Guy are a good idea anyway ...

Warning:  semantic difficulties ahead.  How do you define "stable"?  Some
people read "stable" to mean "no more changes, ever", while others read it
as "long periods with no backward-incompatible changes accepted;
incompatible changes are batched".

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Mark H. Wood, Lead System Programmer   mwood@xxxxxxxxx
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