Subject: Re: so name bump; impact on major, minor and patch version

Re: so name bump; impact on major, minor and patch version

From: Alexander Lamaison <swish_at_lammy.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2010 11:02:21 +0000

On 11 March 2010 20:53, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>
> Ideally, I would like us to gently with the bump. Possibly start off by
> adding #ifdefs or similar so that we can build the existing or the new ABI,
> so that we can allow apps to try it out easier and get a feel for what's new
> and what changes their apps require. We can then introduce the new ABI but
> not built by default in a release or two before we take the jump and cut out
> the old and run with only the new.

This sounds great. Those of us for whom ABI doesn't matter (Windows
users shipping custom-built DLLs) can test out the new API before
everyone else takes the leap.

Alex
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