[hibernate-dev] Compatibility Considerations wiki

[Steve Ebersole]

On Thu, Aug 21, 2014 at 9:26 AM, Emmanuel Bernard <emmanuel at hibernate.org>
wrote:

> Awesome write up. I will for sure steal a lot of it :)
>
> A few random comments:
>
> - once we are sufficiently happy, we probably should move this to the
> website
>

That was the intent :)



> - you mention backward compatibility and leave aside source vs binary
>   backward compatibility. Do we want to dive on this subject? The later
>   is of course much harder even though relatively well defined for Java.
>

True.  We probably should.  I think too this breaks down along the same
lines delineated already.  Meaning that I personally see the guidelines
differently here for API versus SPI across releases.  I guess we should
come up with a formal declaration of what we want here.


>
> Emmanuel
>
> On Sat 2014-08-09  9:55, Steve Ebersole wrote:
> > There was a discussion in regards to our view on backwards compatibility
> in
> > reference to HHH-9316.  I realized that we talk about this amongst
> > ourselves, but that I have never written these down.  So I did that:
> >
> >
> https://github.com/hibernate/hibernate-orm/wiki/Compatibility-Considerations
> >
> > This is a first draft.  Let me know what you think.
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