Nathan Bossart <nathandbossart@gmail.com> writes:
> Thanks. Here's a new patch set. The v18 patch is just an update to the
> .abi-compliance-history file that Tom committed. The master patch adds
> instructions for generating the file to RELEASE_NOTES.
I'd tend to s/placate/control/, otherwise the proposed wording in the
file looks good. I doubt we really need a script to generate the
file in the first place -- why wouldn't copying another branch's
boilerplate be good enough? If you're set on having a script,
at least make it pre-fill the initial entry. (Using branch HEAD
ought to be good enough for that.)
> I imagine we'll
> want to add .abi-compliance-history files for the back-branches, too
> (except for perhaps v13, which is about to go out of support in a couple
> weeks).
Agreed, but let's get v18 in shape first. I imagine the back branches
will require some effort to fill in the correct reference commits.
I was expecting we'd commit initial values pointing at the .0 releases
and then seeing what the ABI checker moans about in each branch ...
regards, tom lane