On Fri, Dec 7, 2012 at 12:49 PM, Richard W.M. Jones <rjones(a)redhat.com> wrote:
I think the real lesson is that platforms should take backwards
compatibility more seriously. The single best decision that libvirt
has ever made was to promise to support the libvirt API and ABI
forever. If you wrote a program against libvirt 0.0.1 (or whatever it
was) 7 years ago, it should still work today.
Easier said than done in some cases