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Date:      Wed, 21 May 2014 11:49:26 +0200
From:      Erik Cederstrand <erik+lists@cederstrand.dk>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, Royce Williams <royce@tycho.org>
Subject:   Re: [GSoC] Machine readable output from userland utilities
Message-ID:  <8DDBACB5-749B-4660-B1DE-F2EE51033D96@cederstrand.dk>
In-Reply-To: <537C63DF.1090402@mu.org>
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Den 21/05/2014 kl. 10.29 skrev Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>:
>=20
> This is a great idea.  Having compat formats is very important.
>=20
> That said there are a few things here we can do to keep the scope of =
this project down to something doable by a student as well as very =
useful for FreeBSD.
>=20
> First off we can decide that without any additional specification that =
v1.0 is the default version, it then becomes up to the app to ask for =
v2.0, v2.1, etc at a later date.

To keep the scope even further down, why not just adopt the same policy =
regarding API stability and deprecation as the rest of the FreeBSD =
project?

Erik=



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