We know how to manage mutation, though...
Posted Dec 4, 2008 14:47 UTC (Thu) by
davecb (subscriber, #1574)
Parent article:
Debugfs and the making of a stable ABI
Multics addressed that, back before Unix
existed, as it needed to support controlled
change.
Paul Stachour wrote about the process
in
Observations about Software Maintenance
at multicians.org.
I've used it for avoiding "flag days" in
new software whose API was still mutating,
which sounds a lot like this case
--dave (who typed Paul's talk in) c-b
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