Am 28.12.2012 09:29, schrieb Klaus Schmidinger:
On 28.12.2012 00:47, Dominic Evans wrote: IF YOU BREAK USERSPACE I HATE YOU AND YOU ARE A TERRIBLE PERSON Not breaking userspace is, of course, the right thing to do in a *stable* version of any software.
In Linux context, it actually means keep compatibility to any userspace app across as many generations of stable releases as possible. It means for example, that any program written and compiled against the DVBv3 API still works, and will work for several years on, even though DVBv5 is so much better.
For plugin developers it means, don't demand that the user has to use a certain VDR version. If plugin foo only works with VDR-1.7.xy, and plugin bar requires VDR-1.7.ab, the user looses. Good plugins should work with any version at least back to the last stable release. And the recent changes didn't make things easier.
Right now I'm in the awkward situation that I cannot port my plugins to .34 because for serious tests I need ported versions of several other plugins. Its a chicken-and-egg thing, and right now all the eggs are broken.
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