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

[Paul Ferraro]

I had a hunch that might be the case - I'll hold off on testing until
ISPN-953 is resolved.
Thanks Galder,

Paul

On Thu, 2011-02-24 at 11:37 +0100, Galder Zamarreño wrote: 
> 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
> > 
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> Galder Zamarreño
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> Infinispan, JBoss Cache
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