<div dir="ltr">I think it makes sense to officially document this. It has apparently never graduated from being "tribal knowledge".<div><br></div><div>As far as the concrete details, I haven't thought too much, but the deprecation process you suggested makes sense to me.</div><div><br></div><div>-- Sean Silva</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 17, 2015 at 12:36 PM, Juergen Ributzka <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:juergen@apple.com" target="_blank">juergen@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi @ll,<br>
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a few of us had recently a discussion about how to manage the C API and possible policies regarding addition, maintenance, deprecation, and removal of API.<br>
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Even thought there is a strong agreement in the community that we shouldn't break released C API and should be backwards compatible, there doesn’t seem to be a developer policy that backs that up. This is something we should fix.<br>
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I was wondering what the interested parties think of the current approach and what could/should we improve to make the use and maintenance of the C API easier for users and the developers alike.<br>
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I was hoping we could also introduce a process that allows the removal of an API after it has been deprecated for a whole release and the release notes stated that it will be removed.<br>
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Thoughts? Comments?<br>
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Cheers,<br>
Juergen<br>
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