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Re: [riena-dev] Riena provisional APIs
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Hi Christian,
Christian Campo wrote:
Hi Scott,
too me the difference between provisional API and non-provisional API
are just the rules that you need to follow when making breaking changes.
This is one aspect, but I don't think your interpretation is shared by
all. I think you should consult the runtime PMC about this.
I agree that changes will happen only that I intend to supply a more
stable foundation so that people building apps on top of Riena can be
sure that it will
continue to run in the future unless they are explicitly notified i.e.
through deprecation and through a new major version number.
Even ECF 3.0 now has breaking changes. So that tells me that if I
would wait until no API break can happen in Riena, my APIs will stay
provisional forever.
That's clearly not the intent (to stay provisional forever). And WRT
ECF...ECF is at version 3, not version 1...after 4+ years as an Eclipse
Foundation project and 2+ years incubation period...so this is not
exactly comparable.
Again, I suggest you consult the RT PMC about this before making a final
decision.
Scott
