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<p style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px;margin-left:0px;margin-right:0px;text-indent:0px"><span style="font-family:'NokiaPureTextLight'"> </span></p></div><br><div id="fenix-reply-header"><p>Even Rouault kirjoitti 7.11.2012 21:45:<br>
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> RFC 39 (the layer algebra) does break the C ABI, I believe.<br>
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No, it does not break anything. It *adds* new entry points, like all previous<br>
releases have done. Which is OK as far as backward compatibility is concerned.<br>
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> How about making the changes to the API but not implement them...?<br>
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That's an option that could be done for some changes perhaps, but to do it,<br>
you must have sufficiently thought to the implementation to come with a good<br>
API, and when you're at that point, you've already spent enough energy that<br>
it's better to do the implementation itself rather than coming back to it<br>
months later.<br>
I'm not sure how users would deal with stub implementations of the API: that<br>
could be confusing.<br>
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