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| author | Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com> | 2015-11-06 14:40:56 +0800 |
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| committer | Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com> | 2015-11-09 15:04:24 +0800 |
| commit | a01435ea225eae190072ba035f94a755c25eb945 (patch) | |
| tree | c5d4c0c60baa63e87d6cb3eb7ee103105dcf5574 | |
| parent | 06fc2c1e57b0601196efcf736f1f447a50ff1124 (diff) | |
| download | wayland-protocols-a01435ea225eae190072ba035f94a755c25eb945.tar.gz | |
README: Some clarifications regarding major vs minor versions
Was missing that the major version is also part of the interface names.
Signed-off-by: Jonas Ådahl <jadahl@gmail.com>
| -rw-r--r-- | README | 9 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
@@ -75,9 +75,12 @@ An unstable protocol has at least two versions; the major version which represents backward incompatible changes, and the minor versions which represents backward compatible changes to the interfaces in the protocol. -The major version is part of the XML file name and the protocol name in -the XML, while a minor version is the version attribute of the interfaces -in the protocol. +The major version is part of the XML file name, the protocol name in the +XML, and interface names in the protocol. + +Minor versions are the version attributes of the interfaces in the XML. +There may be more than one minor version per protocol, if there are more +than one global. The XML file and protocol name also has the word 'unstable' in them, and all of the interfaces in the protocol are prefixed with +z+ and |