OML bringup bugs and compatibility

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Neels Hofmeyr nhofmeyr at sysmocom.de
Fri Feb 15 19:03:38 UTC 2019


On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 10:22:21AM +0100, Max wrote:
> That would match general expectations set by other free software projects
> like GTK for example - nobody expects application written for GTK2.x to work
> effortlessly with GTK3.y

Yes, but such a compatibility break always brings a lot of overhead and a split
of the user base, as we have seen with the osmo-nitb split. The community is
infinitely slow in taking on the newer incompatible version.

The aim should be to remain compatible.

~N
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