Re: API changes in minor releases

On Fri Sep 12, 2003 at 05:3808PM +0200, Wolfram Kriesing wrote: > I remember that PEAR defines that API changes should only take place > in major releases. Since there are packages that change the API also > in minor releases this needs handling i guess. The PEAR Group is discussing that and we'll come up with something soon. > I just came across this, because i have a package that depends on > another one, which changed the API in a minor release and it is really > annoying when you have to upgrade a package only because another one, > that it depends on, has changed. > > How are the common rules for this in PEAR and are there any plans to > handle that? In your specific case you are the one who has to change his package, I guess ;-). -- - Martin Martin Jansen http://martinjansen.com/