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tool to check API compatibility breakage ? #234

Open ericwomer opened 11 years ago

ericwomer commented 11 years ago

Is there any way to make a release source package for opencollada? I just found out that the version of the library in the Gentoo Portage tree is going to be 2 years old soon and was hoping that there would be a source package release that we could add to the portage tree, from a central download repo.

hasufell commented 10 years ago

correct, otherwise distributors will use snapshots without knowing if the commit is actually a good one

RemiArnaud commented 8 years ago

old request, closing as probably not relevant anymore. Please re-open if you still want this.

hobbes1069 commented 8 years ago

I'm guessing this was closed en masse with all the other issues but official releases are still a good idea along with maintaining API/ABI compatibility within a series.

RemiArnaud commented 8 years ago

Yes, absolutely. Reopened. Thanks for feedback

hasufell commented 8 years ago

I'm guessing this was closed en masse with all the other issues but official releases are still a good idea along with maintaining API/ABI compatibility within a series.

You are a dreamer ;)

It's now considered fancy to break API and ABI as often as possible and make people bundle your library. Google does it too, so it must be the right way!

RemiArnaud commented 8 years ago

that's because there is only ONE codebase .. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W71BTkUbdqE

hasufell commented 8 years ago

Yeah, facebook does it similarly wrong, that's why they had to introduce huge hacks to mercurial, because updating the repository alone would literally take hours.

RemiArnaud commented 8 years ago

ok, so we now have release numbers, and we do intend to follow http://semver.org/

But, it would be so much better if we had a tool that we would run on each PR with the build, that would check the compatibility so we make sure that we give the proper version number.

This said, we do not intend to break compatibility, but will add APIs/ABIs as needed (that would be a minor version number update).

Does anyone has recommendations or would contribute to this effort ? It does not have to be cross platform, could be just on the mac or windows or linux build.