Re: platform compatibility policy

[Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth ireland sun com>]

>From: Havoc Pennington <hp redhat com>

>Colm Smyth <Colm Smyth ireland sun com> writes: 
>> I know that there was a suggestion that Havoc write up some standards
>> for the GNOME project, but this is actually something I know a fair
>> bit about. How about we co-write it, and re-use as much as we can of
>> existing 'best practices' where possible and appropriate
>> Liam Quin <liam holoweb net> suggested that it might be useful
>> to put an overview on binary-compatibility up on the GNOME site.
>> The docs I mailed could be cleaned up for this purpose and modified to suit
>> GNOME.
>> 
>> What do you guys think?
>> 
>
>If you want to do this I'd be very happy to let you be in charge of
>it. Please do. ;-)

Thanks. Feedback will be very welcome.

>Federico has some bin compat guidelines in the GNOME developer's guide
>which is around someplace, you might want to incorporate what he says
>in there.

Thanks for the pointer, I'll take a look.

Colm.