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Add API / ABI backwards-compatibility checks #115

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rnowling-adroll opened this issue Jan 10, 2017 · 0 comments

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rnowling-adroll commented Jan 10, 2017

The TrailDB project has the goal of maintaining backwards-compatible APIs and ABIs.

To make this explicit and to aid developers, we could add:

an automated API/ABI compatibility check to CI so that ever PR is automatically checked.
a test suite of traildbs created with older versions to ensure they can be properly read with newer versions of the library
a test suite that compiles example programs against older versions of traildb and runs them against newer versions to ensure

A few resources Ville pointed me to:

tuulos added the enhancement label

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