Re: [cdt-dev] process question about API

[Elena Laskavaia <elaskavaia@xxxxxxx>]

So it we change plugin to 5.0.2 (which is the plan) we can put since 5.0.2 tag right?


Schorn, Markus wrote:
> You are not allowed to change API without increasing the minor-version,
> even if 
> the change is binary compatible. See for instance:
> http://wiki.eclipse.org/index.php/Version_Numbering
>
> Markus.
>  
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx 
> > [mailto:cdt-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elena Laskavaia
> > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2008 9:12 PM
> > To: CDT General developers list.
> > Subject: [cdt-dev] process question about API
> > Importance: Low
> >
> > This is question to CDT commiters.
> >
> > Lets say I have a bug that I want to fix in 5.0.2 (this is 
> > version we are integrating with) and to fix it properly I 
> > really need non-breaking API change. But if I do that API 
> > tooling would complain that there is no @since tag.
> > But I only can add @since 5.0 which is not really true, and 
> > it won't work for 6.0 with pure 5.0 baseline (it would be 
> > error that since tag is wrong)...
> >
> > What do we do in this case?
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