Re: Packages with breaking APIs

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On Wed, Feb 1, 2023 at 12:46 PM Benson Muite <benson_muite@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The review had gone through, and had created the package, then retired
> it, but as the APIs are different, and this also applies to another
> package I have under review, mbedTLS, wanted to know if there are
> general guidelines on this.
>
> For Catch, there was an upgrade from 1 to 2. Similarly for FFTW, the
> main package uses the name FFTW, but it was FFTW3 before hand. Maybe one
> could use Catch3 or Catch2v3? Then change names later once more packages
> use the v3 interface?
>

Normally older versions are broken out into versioned legacy packages
and the main package is upgraded. Then reverse dependencies are either
upgraded or pinned as needed.


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