pidgin: 7ee5e1d4: Patch from Zac West, plucked from severa...

Mark Doliner mark at kingant.net
Mon Feb 21 21:50:12 EST 2011


On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Kevin Stange <kstange at pidgin.im> wrote:
> On 02/21/2011 01:16 PM, Mark Doliner wrote:
>> On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:18 AM, Kevin Stange <kstange at pidgin.im> wrote:
>>> The goal is full forward and backward compatibility for the entire minor
>>> release.  If you build against 2.7.11, there should be no risk your code
>>> uses or expects symbols not available in 2.7.0 and vice versa.
>>
>> I think you mean "micro" instead of "minor."
>
> Nope, I meant "minor" where the "minor release" is the entire set of
> 2.7.x and compatibility is retained within it.  I should probably have
> appended the word "series."  Maintaining compatibility for the entire
> micro release would be a single release.

Ohhhhhh, I see.  Cool.

--Mark




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