ABI stability of internal DBs

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Jul 08, 2010 at 11:01:56AM -0700, Jeremy Allison wrote:
> I'm not sure we need to be so formal on this. The people
> who care about this watch the code *very* closely (hi there
> metze & vl :-) and anyone changing this usually discusses
> it with them before pushing any patches.

From my standpoint we can promise to do our best. But giving
a fixed guarantee that we will never break rolling code
upgradeability within a 3.x version is a very strong
statement that can hurt us badly. It will eventually put a
huge workload on us for when we find a bug that requires
data fields to change. 

But if you are 100% certain that these bugs never happen,
I'm fine with your guarantee.

Volker
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