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Re: Backward compatibility
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Rob Browning |
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Re: Backward compatibility |
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Sat, 06 Sep 2003 20:27:28 -0500 |
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Dirk Herrmann <address@hidden> writes:
> I realize that you, Marius, have put a lot of effort to make guile
> backwards compatible. Do you intend to make it binary backwards
> compatible, or is it sufficient for you if Guile was sourcecode
> backwards compatible?
We should be bumping the major sonames with the next release anyway,
and that should avoid breaking any existing apps on install (i.e. we
can coexist with the old version). I suspect that's probably
sufficient.
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Rob Browning
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