Re: [Evolution-hackers] OO.o / evolution integration ...

[Michael Meeks <michael ximian com>]

So,

On Wed, 2004-11-17 at 11:37 -0500, Rodney Dawes wrote:
> The names have been changed for HEAD of the evolution stack, in
> preparation for API/ABI breakage.

	Expansion, or breakage ?

>  The evolution-data-server package and libraries are not part of
> the Development Platform, only the Desktop, and not being platform
> libraries, there is no guarantee of ABI/API stability between
> major revisions.

	I understand that; however - if you want other people to use them
[ read. integrate with evolution ], it's worth not gratuitously breaking
them [ ie. 1 minor revision later they are re-named breaking the ABI ].
Ultimately, we use a rather small sub-set of the (already quite small)
addressbook API.

> I'm not sure what the best solution is for OO, but it's not exactly
> a sleigh ride for us either. You try maintaining feature-completeness
> while getting testing for new features, on current platforms, while
> breaking ABI/API. Snapshots are not fun. ;)

	If it's about snapshots; I can understand having a 'libdevel-ebook-1.0'
or something that is parallel installable; but:
the RPM I upgraded to through red-carpet wasn't (seemingly) parallel
installable.

	Regards,

		Michael.

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