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API changes under consideration

Posted Aug 26, 2004 22:00 UTC (Thu) by wli (guest, #20327)
In reply to: API changes under consideration by kleptog
Parent article: API changes under consideration

Not at all. One can trivially find all callers using grep(1) and update
them.

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Posted Aug 27, 2004 8:43 UTC (Fri) by jmshh (guest, #8257) [Link]

Yes, but limited to code

There is a lot of stuff not satisfying either condition.

API changes under consideration

Posted Aug 28, 2004 5:18 UTC (Sat) by wli (guest, #20327) [Link]

I'm rather hard-pressed to sympathize with those not submitting their
changes for mainline inclusion or those unable to port their code
properly.