LSARC/2008/059 - SQLite

[Nicolas Williams]

On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 02:25:48PM -0600, Brian Cameron wrote:
> Nicolas:
> >It would still, however, save work to mark the stable parts of the API
> >as Uncommitted.
> 
> What work would be saved, exactly?

Negotiating contracts, informing contract holders of updates.  The
trade-off is that it would require checking the release notes of SQLite
(at least) to see if any Uncommitted interfaces have changed
incompatibly.

> Also, it would make more work if we find, in fact, the interfaces are
> not as stable enough to meet Sun's understanding of "Uncommitted"
> (which means that the interfaces can't change in Solars 11, but only
> in Solaris 12 or later).

Except that the community's track record leaves little doubt that the
likelihood of this is low.  And if it happens then in the worst case
we'd have to ship multiple versions.