Re: Proposal: begin 1.1 release stabilization.

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman@collab.net> wrote on 06/07/2004 02:05:33 PM:

> On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 13:01, Mark Phippard wrote:
>
> > I think an important point to document and define will be
compatability.
> > Can I mix a 1.0 client with a 1.1 server and vice versa? Those are
the
> > main issues people will want to know and will make it easy or
difficult to
> > upgrade depending on the answer.
>
> This is all documented in HACKING, take a look.
>
>
> 1. A patch or minor number release of a server (or client) never
> breaks compatibility with a client (or server) in the same major
> line. However, new features offered by the release might be
> unsupported without a corresponding upgrade to the other side of
> the connection. [...]
>

Thanks. When the release is actually published this information should be
pushed to the web site information and I think it is also worth mentioning
somewhere in the book.

Mark

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Received on Mon Jun 7 20:10:19 2004