API breakages - file bugs / update HACKING.txt ?

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Thu May 22 19:21:27 BST 2008


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Aaron Bentley wrote:
> Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
>> It's not just new mandatory arguments., it's also public APIs
>> disappearing without deprecation. For example, the public
>> constructor of KnitVersionedFile lost two arguments in 1.4.
>
> This is true, but before doing that, Robert posted a message titled
> "api break for 1.4..." and requested feedback on whether that break
> was acceptable.  So you could have said "no" at that point.
>
> I think that we should not generally remove things without
> deprecation. When we do, we ought to confirm it with the community
> like Robert did.
Ah, sorry, I must've missed that. I sometimes get behind on the bazaar
list too much and just skip a bunch of emails. Ignore me about that
breakage then :-)

Cheers,

Jelmer
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