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Re: libxl API changes for 4.2 (Was: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: do no

To: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: libxl API changes for 4.2 (Was: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] libxl: do not expose libxenctrl/libxenstore headers via libxl.h)
From: Christoph Egger <Christoph.Egger@xxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2011 12:12:15 +0200
Cc: Jim Fehlig <jfehlig@xxxxxxxxxx>, "xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xen-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Stefano Stabellini <Stefano.Stabellini@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Beulich <JBeulich@xxxxxxxxxx>, Jan
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On 04/13/11 12:06, Ian Campbell wrote:
On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 05:07 +0100, Jim Fehlig wrote:
Stefano Stabellini wrote:
   Seems best for clients
to target new releases (4.1, 4.2, ...) and expect branch releases
(4.1.1, 4.1.2, ...) to have a stable API?

That seems like a reasonable expectation to me.

Any user of libxl should be able to ask for the API version
and can have different backends for the different API versions then.

Christoph


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