[coyotos-dev] IDL compatibility: the versioning nightmare

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 21:44 -0700, Charles Landau wrote:

> In other words, you agree that the "contract" may be broken at major 
> release boundaries.

I'm not sure how to define "major release", but I do think that there
are some releases where source compatibility rather then binary
compatibility should be the test -- i.e. a recompile is required. At
those releases the interfaces can probably be consolidated.

shap
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