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List:       kde-core-devel
Subject:    Re: synching kactivities in kdelibs/4.7
From:       Michael Pyne <mpyne () kde ! org>
Date:       2011-09-21 23:40:53
Message-ID: 1330102.gpNr5HThi1 () midna
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On Wednesday, September 21, 2011 21:55:49 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 September 2011, Maksim Orlovich wrote:
> > Please don't tell me a binary incompatible change in a stable branch
> > is seriously being considered.
> 
> Well, I guess it depends how you look at it. kactivities is definitely
> marked as experimental in kdelibs/4.7. Do we give any guarantees for
> experimental libraries? If yes, where? Do we promise that an
> experimental library does not change in a BIC way from one minor release
> to the next? If yes, where?

My understanding is that binary compatibility is explicitly disclaimed for 
experimental libs. Of course, there's still the argument that such a break 
should only occur across new feature releases, not bugfix releases. I'm not 
sure if that case is accounted for in whatever we published when we came up 
with kdelibs/experimental

Either way I believe the end result should still be binary compatible if you 
replace kdelibs 4.7.1 with kactivities+kdelibs 4.7.2, no?

Regards,
 - Michael Pyne
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