[Qgis-developer] Time for 1.0 API freeze

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Mon, 2008-11-17 at 16:03 +0100, Martin Dobias wrote:

> Hi Tim,
> I've been doing some tweaks only when I stumble across something, but
> nothing really systematical. I think we can put a fixed date for API
> freeze, let's say November 20th?

From the PSC meeting we will temporarily unfreeze trunk to allow
improved labelling to be added, so I will hold on for API freeze until
after that - feel free to tweak on if you spot inconistencies in the
mean time!


> I've been thinking also about more complex changes in QGIS v1.x
> without breaking API. My idea is that if we do some BIG changes, the
> resulting class can be named differently, e.g. with "Qgs2" prefix and
> older class can be implemented using this new class. With this
> approach we can do bigger enhancements in core/gui libraries without
> breaking API.

Yes this is one strategy we can follow.

> 
> What do others think about this policy?
> 

http://sourcemaking.com/refactoring has many other useful patterns for
dealing with API changes.

Regards


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