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RE: [cdt-dev] process question about API

You are not allowed to change API without increasing the minor-version,
even if 
the change is binary compatible. See for instance:
http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Version_Numbering

Markus.
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elena Laskavaia
> Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:12 PM
> To: CDT General developers list.
> Subject: [cdt-dev] process question about API
> Importance: Low
> 
> This is question to CDT commiters.
> 
> Lets say I have a bug that I want to fix in 5.0.2 (this is 
> version we are integrating with) and to fix it properly I 
> really need non-breaking API change. But if I do that API 
> tooling would complain that there is no @since tag.
> But I only can add @since 5.0 which is not really true, and 
> it won't work for 6.0 with pure 5.0 baseline (it would be 
> error that since tag is wrong)...
> 
> What do we do in this case?
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