Re: [gnome-db] What about the new realice of gnome-db?

[Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>]

On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 17:10 +0100, Vivien Malerba wrote:
> 2006/1/5, Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>:
> > On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 09:24 -0600, Daniel Espinosa wrote:
> > > One question...
> > >
> > > If the chages made for Vivien, ADD new API to libgda; is it necesary
> > > to jump to 3.0 series? Is it not too fast?
> > >
> > > I think a good product need to be stable enough to usable in
> > > production; even in API/ABI.
> > >
> > that's why I proposed putting Vivien's changes before 2.0, and after
> > that, try to not break the API in a while.
> >
> > Vivien, what do you think? Big API changes have proved to be a problem
> > (bindings, porting apps, etc), so if we could reduce it, it would be
> > great.
> 
> The changes I've made do break the current API/ABI.
> 
> The reason is that it's a reorganization of the objects between libgda
> and libgnomedb. I could not simply only ADD to the existing API even
> though I understand the need for stability.
> 
> Basically the reorganization bas the following benefits:
> - less lines of code
> - more features
> - easier to understand and more coherent API
> - makes room for future improvements
> - better testing framework
> 
> This reorganization is a necessary step as I discovered while I tried
> to add more features to libgnomedb, and because of historical reasons
> (as I first merged the mergeant functionalities into libgnomedb).
> 
> I don't expect anymore such big changes afterwards (understand: we can
> have long stabilization periods afterwards).
> 
> The current stage is that libgda works well, and that libgnomedb
> compiles and I expect it to work quite soon.
> 
> If you really want to postpone the 2.0 release by a few months, then
> we can make those modifications into it; that would be worth.
> 
I think that's the wisest decision, and thus keep 2.0 a long stable
release, with no important API breakages in a big time.

So, yes, I vote for putting your changes in 2.0 and thus take a few more
weeks/months for releasing the final 2.0.
-- 
Rodrigo Moya <rodrigo gnome-db org>