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Wireshark ABI compatibilty in release branches
From: Bálint Réczey <balint () balintreczey hu>
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 19:12:22 +0100
Hi, I think we did a very good job in maintaining backward compatibility in 1.6.x and 1.8.x releases [1]. In >1.6.1 there were no backward incompatible change in the 1.6.x branch and on 1.8.x branch there were only one [2]. It is caused by a fix [3] for bug 7348 [4]. IMHO while fixing the bug was clearly useful we could consider reverting the fix on 1.8.x it to return to the original ABI in 1.8.5. What do you, developers think? What policy should we follow in case of accidental ABI breakages? Cheers, Balint [1] http://upstream-tracker.org/versions/wireshark.html [2] http://upstream-tracker.org/compat_reports/wireshark/1.8.2_to_1.8.3/abi_compat_report.html [3] http://code.wireshark.org/git/?p=wireshark;a=commit;h=e5e09f70168e7534a91959255e558c8a5cd9991a [4] https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7348 ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Wireshark ABI compatibilty in release branches Bálint Réczey (Jan 18)
- Re: Wireshark ABI compatibilty in release branches Evan Huus (Jan 18)
- Re: Wireshark ABI compatibilty in release branches Jaap Keuter (Jan 20)
- Re: Wireshark ABI compatibilty in release branches Bálint Réczey (Jan 21)
- Re: Wireshark ABI compatibilty in release branches Jaap Keuter (Jan 20)
- Re: Wireshark ABI compatibilty in release branches Evan Huus (Jan 18)