[NUT-devel] NUT spec review - chapters

[Michael Niedermayer]

On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 02:38:17PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:57:51PM +0100, Diego Biurrun wrote:
> > On Sat, Feb 09, 2008 at 01:49:03PM +0100, Michael Niedermayer wrote:
> > > Iam very strogly against breaking compatibility
> > 
> > Breaking compatibility with what?
> 
> With the frozen spec. It is EXTREEMLY unprofessional to call something
> frozen and then break compatibility for a dubious improvment.
> One shouldnt complain about mpeg being lame while then acting even more lame.

Also if we do decide to break compatibility then this should be marked
clearly. Not like yet another commit to nut.txt
Iam thinking here of nut2.txt with the number acting like a soname and
of course also updating the stored version number

And the new variant would be non frozen so until its frozen compatibility
breaks could be done much easier ...

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