[infinispan-dev] API stability policy for major vs minor vs patch releases

[Galder Zamarreño]

It's the result of https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-925 and http://goo.gl/MUJaK

I think it was an oversight. I agree that it should have been deprecated and removed in Infinispan 6.0.

I've created a JIRA to restore it and mark it as deprecated: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/ISPN-953

On Feb 23, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Paul Ferraro wrote:

> In my course of upgrading AS6 from 4.2.0.Final to 4.2.1.CR3, I came
> across a NoSuchMethodError.  Specifically, a couple AS components
> utilize DistributionManager.isLocal(String), which was dropped from the
> public API sometime after 4.2.1.CR1.
> 
> While the fix is trivial enough (in the end I'll need to perform several
> component release to compensate), this raises the larger issue of a API
> stability policy for major vs minor vs patch releases.  At the very
> least, I don't think its wise to remove methods from a public interface
> in a patch release.  In my opinion, removing methods from a public API
> should only happen across major releases, and even then, only after
> being formally deprecated.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Paul
> 
> _______________________________________________
> infinispan-dev mailing list
> infinispan-dev at lists.jboss.org
> https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/infinispan-dev

--
Galder Zamarreño
Sr. Software Engineer
Infinispan, JBoss Cache