Re: Java policy and ABI changes
On Saturday May 26 2007, Andrew Haley wrote:
> manfred@mosabuam.com writes:
> > Hm. All this is a bit extreme. Even the Linux kernel changes its
> > API all the time and things are working okay.
>
> This really is grossly unfair to the kernel deveopers, who go to
> great lengths to avoid breaking the ABI. Would that Java package
> mantainers were so careful.
Sorry if I had the wrong impression and made a bit of an extreme
statement. I certainly don't know enough about this and apologize.
I do believe that API changes are necessary here and there and there
are valid reasons to support the old and the new API at the same
time.
manfred
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