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how to deal with API changes? #5505
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I'm not sure we need the file, but the announcements to the mailing list are certainly a good idea. |
(on the other hand I hope we are getting to a point soonish, where API changes are something that happens rather rarely ;-)) |
Optimist. ;-) |
I would suggest versionizing APIs so that users of an API will be notified at compile time when they need to update their code due to an API change. i.e. something along the lines of (bear with me - untested):
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closing for now. |
currently, some (not all) of our API changes are announced on the mailing list, and some (not all) are mentioned in the release notes.
Is there a way to optimize this?
Ideas:
Or keep it as is - try to reasonably inform the crowd somehow?
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