Re: Changing (internal) interface signatures in a plugin

2013-01-29 Thread Anders Hammar
Well, to be absolutely clear, to fix that issue I might need to make bigger changes (incl. public methods) as there should probably be some design changes. The patch is not complete. But I'd like this discussion to be generic and not specific to this issue. /Anders On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 3:59

Re: Changing (internal) interface signatures in a plugin

2013-01-29 Thread Olivier Lamy
+1 And the patch is a signature change on a private method so not a real issue. 2013/1/29 Anders Hammar : > Just want to check what the general opinion is about changing method > signatures of Plexus component interfaces in our plugins for a minor > version release. > > In a perfect world it would

Re: Changing (internal) interface signatures in a plugin

2013-01-29 Thread Benson Margulies
+1 on changing. no one is forced to upgrade. On Jan 29, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Anders Hammar wrote: > Just want to check what the general opinion is about changing method > signatures of Plexus component interfaces in our plugins for a minor > version release. > > In a perfect world it would be aweso

Changing (internal) interface signatures in a plugin

2013-01-29 Thread Anders Hammar
Just want to check what the general opinion is about changing method signatures of Plexus component interfaces in our plugins for a minor version release. In a perfect world it would be awesome to always keep backwards compatibility and at least never do any changes unless a major version. But as