Re: Re: Breaking BC / Changing API / Deprecating
| From: | Ian Eure | Date: | Tue, 19 Jul 2005 17:52:05 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Re: Breaking BC / Changing API / Deprecating | ||
| References: | 1 2 | Groups: | php.pear.dev |
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On Tuesday 19 July 2005 09:41 am, Lukas Smith wrote:
> Joe Stump wrote:
> > I've heard from the QA team that you can't break backwards
> > compatibility without creating an entirely new package (ie. Foo_Bar - >
> > Foo_Bar2). Or change the API without doing the same. Does this simply
> > sound retarded to anyone else? Isn't this what version numbers are for?
>
> This is due to the fact that you may be using multiple packages that
> depend on different versions of the API. As such its necessary to have a
> different namespace.
>
The package.xml versionsed dependencies don't solve this?
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