[LLVMdev] LLVM 3.3 dot releases

Renato Golin
Tue, 25 Jun 2013 10:10:03 -0000

On 25 June 2013 09:59, David Chisnall <David.Chisnall at cl.cam.ac.uk>
wrote:

> What are the rules about API / ABI stability within the point releases?
>  From our perspective downstream, it would be nice to have bug-fix
> incremental releases that were binary compatible, so that we could just
> pull them in and not worry about breaking anything.  It would be okay to
> have things that were source compatible, but slightly less useful.  It
> would be of no benefit to us if there are backwards-incompatible API
> changes in the point releases.
>

This is a very sane requirement and I concur binary and API compatibility
should be enforced.

cheers,
--renato
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