Re: [fluid-dev] Making MIDI player read from a buffer

[Pedro Lopez-Cabanillas]

On Tuesday 19 October 2010, David Henningsson wrote:
> If you feel that the current API needs incompatible
> > changes, then this feature should go in a library version 2. That's all. 
Not a
> > big deal, this is going to happen sooner or later.
> 
> If you're talking about dropping backwards compatibility, then that is a 
> big deal IMO. We might come to a point where we believe it is necessary, 
> but I don't see it coming right now.

Of course, something like that needs a solid justification. But there is a 
limit of what you can fix without breaking compatibility. And if we reach that 
limit, finding good reasons to bump the sacred soversion number, I would be 
glad because this means that our project is alive, growing well, and maturing.

Regards,
Pedro