My point was that a recompile is fine. Breaking the *source* interface is
problematic. (For those who fear that source compatibility can lead to
binary compatibility and dislike the latter: you can make source-compatible
changes that break binary conpatibility, the most obvious being rearranging
structure elements.)
The main thing I draw from your example is that nobody garbage-collected
smap in a timely fashion. Announce the old interface's deprecation in the
(stable) release where the new interface first shows up, and then *remove*
it at the next major release.
Widely distributed development has its drawbacks; this is one of them. It
would be nice if we dealt with it semi-sanely.
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carnegie mellon / electrical and computer engineering kf8nh
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