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[Julien Danjou <julien.danjou@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Dec 20 2011, Brian Waldon wrote:

>> So what's the point of not saying that you may not be breaking
>> compatibility by adding a minor version usage for just new feature for
>> example?
>
> I should have added that I'm against minor versions in the Compute API due
> to our extensions mechanism. I don't want non-breaking changes in the core
> API to break existing extensions. It's easier to just add an extension
> rather than extend the core spec.

Ahah. Reminds me of the X11 protocol.

Be careful, in 20 years you might regret it. :)

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