Re: [riena-dev] Riena provisional APIs

[Scott Lewis <slewis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Christian,

Christian Campo wrote:
> Hi Scott,
>
> right but isnt that what will happen with 1.1, which is Galileo or did 
> I get you wrong here ?

Your span of time between 1.0 and 1.1 is unusually short.  Especially 
since your incubation time was also unusually short.

> The reason why I think its a good point to make APIs final is because 
> people like to build their application on top of Riena and trust that 
> the same application will also run with Riena 1.2. and Riena 1.3. 
> Since there are already a number of projects running (or started) 
> based on Riena, I like to do that (one project was presented on the 
> EclipseCon -> RedView).

Given my experience so far (with ECF other EF projects), it seems likely 
to me that in response to further usage and feedback that you will 
want/need to make breaking API changes.  Guaranteeing at this point that 
breaking API changes will not/cannot occur (i.e. moving to 
non-provisional API) seems premature to me.

Scott