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Diffstat (limited to 'HACKING')
| -rw-r--r-- | HACKING | 9 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ Adding public API - Any async function which uses non-async-scope callbacks as well as the async ready callback should provide GDestroyNotify callbacks for destroying the user data for those callbacks. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649728 for details. + - Any new class’ class structure (e.g. GDataServiceClass) must have reserved slots to allow future API additions of virtual functions without + breaking ABI. + Choosing function names ======================= @@ -205,7 +208,9 @@ Versioning ========== Starting with version 0.9.0, libgdata has adopted an even–odd/stable–unstable versioning policy, where odd minor version numbers are unstable releases, -released periodically (with increasing micro version numbers) and leading to a stable release with the next even minor version number. API breaks are -allowed in micro releases with an odd minor version number, but not in micro releases with an even minor version number. +released periodically (with increasing micro version numbers) and leading to a stable release with the next even minor version number. API breaks of +new API are allowed in micro releases with an odd minor version number, but not in micro releases with an even minor version number. + +ABI and API backwards compatibility must be preserved unless the major version number is changed. libgdata is now ABI-stable. It is encouraged to make a new micro release of an odd minor series after each large API addition or break. |