Forms of compatibility.
authorOleksandr Gavenko <gavenkoa@gmail.com>
Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:31:40 +0300
changeset 1008 4ddb673763e6
parent 1007 f7a62b2027ea
child 1009 be52d3742472
Forms of compatibility.
devel-versioning.rst
--- a/devel-versioning.rst	Sun Sep 25 16:08:12 2011 +0300
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   GLib GTK+ Gimp GNOME Kaffe
 
+Forms of compatibility.
+=======================
+
+Runtime of binary compatibility mean that binary can be swaped with another
+version without breaking.
+
+Compile time or source compatibility mean that supplied header/interfaces allow
+successful compiling/linking.
+
+Example:
+
+ * Change type of argument in method to more generic take source compatibility
+   but break binary compatibility.
+ * Adding new mothod to abstract class take binary compatibility but break
+   compilation (unimplement method error).
+
 Compatibility formula.
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