[infinispan-dev] public API/what should be preserve between minor releases?

Thomas Fromm tf at tfromm.com
Thu Nov 22 02:23:22 EST 2012


On 22.11.2012 04:11, Navin Surtani wrote:
>> As you see, IMHO such API changes do not have much effect in normal
>> situations. I can imagine only problems, when the changed methods are
>> used within dist exec calls and there are (during update or whatever)
>> different versions of infinispan inside the cluster.
> Does this really happen? I'm asking purely out of ignorance but on instinct I think that running different versions on the cluster is probably a bit risky?

Thats the plan for our own software. Customer can update the nodes one 
by one, of course only for patch releases.
I'd expect (or at least hope) that this will be also possible with 
infinispan in case of critical bug was fixed or smth.


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