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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: Keeping binary compatibility
From:       Lubos Lunak <l.lunak () suse ! cz>
Date:       2010-10-04 15:55:30
Message-ID: 201010041755.30805.l.lunak () suse ! cz
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On Monday 04 of October 2010, George Kiagiadakis wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 3, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Alexander Neundorf <neundorf@kde.org> 
wrote:
> > What about source compatibility ?
> >
> > At least for kdelibs we try to guarantee source compatiblity of the cmake
> > files.
>
> I think source compatibility is easier to maintain because it is more
> obvious when you break it and people generally understand it better
> than binary compatibility. I don't think we have a problem keeping
> source compatibility atm, do we?

 We occassionally do (I e.g. remember fixing a bug somewhen in the past that 
had been introduced by broken source compatibility and people thinking 0 is a 
null pointer).

 But I agree that generally this is a much smaller problem because usually the 
problem simply shows up, shows up in a less confusing way, shows to more 
knowing people, and, last but not least, I doubt there's a sane way to having 
any good checks for that anyway.

-- 
 Lubos Lunak
 l.lunak@suse.cz
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