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A stable API means you will definitely not have to make any modifications, and Linux provides no such guarantees. "Pretty" standard and stable is not the same a
by dTal 6y ago
A stable API means you will definitely not have to make any modifications, and Linux provides no such guarantees. "Pretty" standard and stable is not the same at all.
- deaddodo 6y agoSo, by that logic, there has never been a stable driver API in the history of OSes. Windows 9x, Windows 2000/XP, Windows Vista/7/10 all had different graphic driver models and were incompatible. Same with various releases of OS X/macOS. Of course I’m not implying that the driver interfaces have a guarantee or will not change, especially with the rolling release model of Linux. However, you can be pretty certain within a major point release that there won’t be significant breaking changes. Thus the “pretty stable”. It’s not a pro nor a con, it’s just the style that works for that open source project.