FYI: CVS HEAD breaks mk-livestatus

[Mathieu Gagné]

On 11/11/10 5:11 AM, Andreas Ericsson wrote:
> Well, it was dead from the point of view of Nagios. It would help if
> module authors refrain from using functionality that Nagios itself
> doesn't use.

I do agree with you...

> Anyways, I've restored it now, with a comment that it is to be removed
> when we release Nagios 4 and are allowed to break the API.

However a minor version isn't the place to break backward compatibility 
even if the function is considered deprecated.

APR isn't the reference for Nagios development but:
http://apr.apache.org/versioning.html

About "Minor Versions":

"Deprecating functions

Since a function must remain available for applications coded against a 
previous minor release, it is only possible to "deprecate" a function. 
It cannot be removed from the headers (so that source compatibility is 
retained) and it cannot be removed from the library (so that binary 
compatibility is retained)."

About "Major Versions":

"Any kind of change can be made during a major version release. 
Particular types of changes that might occur:
  * remove or change constants
  * remove (deprecated) functions
  * fold together macro-ized function replacements"

Just my 2¢

-- 
Mathieu

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