From: Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Semver
Date: Mon, 05 Jul 2021 23:30:07 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87zgv0bg9s.fsf@zoho.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvwnqb6sfr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor wrote:
>> But what do you do to preserve/break forward compatibility?
>
> Strictly speaking, any change to the code can break
> something somewhere
Yes...
> but the general rule to preserve forward compatibility is
> "don't introduce new features".
Okay? I couldn't have guessed that... hm, how does it work
out? Ah, no new features -> major stays the same! But that's
"forward" only with respect to minor.micro/patch or what?
> You can preserve forward compatibility while breaking backward
> compatibility, e.g. by making a release that adds no new features but
> drops support for old features (e.g. making the code more efficient
> along the way).
So, new features -> major, drop support -> minor (forward
OK but not backward), and bugfix -> micro/patch (forward OK,
backward OK) ?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-05 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-06-26 18:05 Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...? Colin Baxter
2021-06-26 18:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-26 19:38 ` Colin Baxter
2021-06-27 5:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-06-28 3:56 ` mrf
2021-06-28 4:22 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-28 5:29 ` Colin Baxter
2021-06-28 5:30 ` mrf
2021-06-28 5:14 ` Colin Baxter
2021-06-29 10:07 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-29 22:11 ` [OFFTOPIC] Semver (was: Emacs Versions: major, minor and ...?) Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-30 19:49 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-06-30 20:00 ` [OFFTOPIC] Semver Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-05 21:30 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor [this message]
2021-07-06 9:28 ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-06 9:54 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 11:49 ` Yuri Khan
2021-07-06 16:29 ` Emanuel Berg via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2021-07-06 17:00 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
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