[pymvpa] [Soeren.Sonnenburg at first.fraunhofer.de: Re: begging for backward-compatibility]

[Yaroslav Halchenko]

so no backward compatibility patch from shogun people...

I will hack a workaround so we could support both pre-0.6.5 and current
versions of shogun... if nothing comes out within next few days --
please buzz me, ok?

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Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:50:07 +0100
From: Soeren Sonnenburg <Soeren.Sonnenburg at first.fraunhofer.de>
To: Yaroslav Halchenko <yoh at psychology.rutgers.edu>
Cc: shogun-list at shogun-toolbox.org
Subject: Re: begging for backward-compatibility
X-CRM114-Status: Good  ( pR: 16.6459 )

On Mon, 2008-11-03 at 10:58 -0500, Yaroslav Halchenko wrote:
> Dear Shogun Developers,

> >...<


> I would really appreciate if API wouldn't get incompatible changes within
> each new minor release. If it is possible -- could you spit out a warning that
> such functionality will be deprecated and blah blah, but keep working until
> lets say 0.7 where you actually make API incompatible with 0.6 versions ?

> Thank you in advance for reading this far ;-)

Well there are some bad hacks in the code that need cleaning up. This
was actually the first incompatible change and another one probably
happening around 0.7.0 or 0.8.0 will be to remove the size of kernel
cache argument from the kernels. But yes I will announce API breakage
next time and note that things will be better when we start using a
libshogun with proper so-names but this is still a long way to go...


Soeren
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