LSARC/2008/059 - SQLite

[James Carlson]

Brian Cameron writes:
> 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).

Marking it "Uncommitted" means that you wouldn't be able to place
_incompatible_ changes into patches.

It doesn't constrain the release under development, it doesn't stop
compatible changes, and it doesn't mean that mistakes will never
happen.  (In other words, we try our best, but if breakage happens
anyway, then we consider it a bug and fix it.)

Use Volatile only if you really feel you need to ship patches that
have intentionally incompatible changes.  It's a loaded weapon aimed
squarely at the user.  :-/

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