Re: [Nagios-devel] FYI: CVS HEAD breaks mk-livestatus
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 6:43 pm
On 11/11/10 5:11 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Well, it was dead from the point of view of Nagios. It would help if
> module authors refrain from using functionality that Nagios itself
> doesn't use.
I do agree with you...
> Anyways, I've restored it now, with a comment that it is to be removed
> when we release Nagios 4 and are allowed to break the API.
However a minor version isn't the place to break backward compatibility
even if the function is considered deprecated.
APR isn't the reference for Nagios development but:
http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html
About "Minor Versions":
"Deprecating functions
Since a function must remain available for applications coded against a
previous minor release, it is only possible to "deprecate" a function.
It cannot be removed from the headers (so that source compatibility is
retained) and it cannot be removed from the library (so that binary
compatibility is retained)."
About "Major Versions":
"Any kind of change can be made during a major version release.
Particular types of changes that might occur:
* remove or change constants
* remove (deprecated) functions
* fold together macro-ized function replacements"
Just my 2ยข
--
Mathieu
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> Well, it was dead from the point of view of Nagios. It would help if
> module authors refrain from using functionality that Nagios itself
> doesn't use.
I do agree with you...
> Anyways, I've restored it now, with a comment that it is to be removed
> when we release Nagios 4 and are allowed to break the API.
However a minor version isn't the place to break backward compatibility
even if the function is considered deprecated.
APR isn't the reference for Nagios development but:
http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html
About "Minor Versions":
"Deprecating functions
Since a function must remain available for applications coded against a
previous minor release, it is only possible to "deprecate" a function.
It cannot be removed from the headers (so that source compatibility is
retained) and it cannot be removed from the library (so that binary
compatibility is retained)."
About "Major Versions":
"Any kind of change can be made during a major version release.
Particular types of changes that might occur:
* remove or change constants
* remove (deprecated) functions
* fold together macro-ized function replacements"
Just my 2ยข
--
Mathieu
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Original poster: [email protected]