Road to 0.9

Ulrich Czekalla ulrich.czekalla at utoronto.ca
Tue Mar 19 13:05:14 CST 2002


On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 12:57, Dimitrie O. Paun wrote:
> On March 19, 2002 12:48 pm, Andreas Mohr wrote:
>  >
> > > The point is not to freeze the protocol completely, it will clearly
> > > continue to evolve even after 1.0. The idea is that once the protocol
> > > is declared frozen all future changes are done in a way that preserves
> > > backwards compatibility. And the mechanisms to do that are mostly in
> > > place now, which is what I mean by saying it is finished.
> >
> > OK, so in other words the wineserver *is* more or less "independent from
> > such changes".
> 
> How can that be? What we want is that DLLs compiled with 1.x, work (at the 
> binary level) with any 1.y server, where x <= y, right?
> 

As long as you don't change the protocol used you can make as many
changes as you like to the wineserver. It shouldn't affect dll
compatibility.

> -- 
> Dimi.
> 
> 





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