On Fri, Dec 07, 2012 at 05:49:24PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
I think the real lesson is that platforms should take backwards
compatibility more seriously. The single best decision that libvirt
has ever made was to promise to support the libvirt API and ABI
forever. If you wrote a program against libvirt 0.0.1 (or whatever it
was) 7 years ago, it should still work today.
And that's awesome, and *we* can do that when we make code. And we can even
ask nicely for other people to follow the same practices. But, it's a wild
world out there.....
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Matthew Miller ☁☁☁ Fedora Cloud Architect ☁☁☁ <mattdm(a)fedoraproject.org>