Re: Binary vs. source-level backwards compatibility?

[Ignasi Barrera <ig...@gmail.com>]

Agree too in focusing in source code compatibility.

On 30 June 2014 18:27, Everett Toews <ev...@rackspace.com> wrote:
> On Jun 27, 2014, at 8:29 PM, Chris Custine <ch...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Personally I think of this only in the context of source
>> compatibility.  This particular issue is kind of a rare case I think,
>> but I think it would be ok to potentially return a value here where
>> there was none before, especially since it was really borked prior to
>> https://github.com/jclouds/jclouds/pull/403 (which is still open in
>> case anyone has time to merge it).
>
> Agreed. I think we can reasonably tackle binary backwards compatibility on a case by case basis. Hopefully it’s a relatively rare thing we have to consider. If it’s coming up often, we should consider making some sort of rule for it.
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> Everett
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