Re: Fwd: [swig:bugs] #1353 Octave 3.8.0 support

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject: [swig:bugs] #1353 Octave 3.8.0 support
> Date: Sun, 05 Jan 2014 13:45:11 +0000
> From: William Fulton <address@hidden>
> Reply-To: [swig:bugs]  <address@hidden>
> To: [swig:bugs]  <address@hidden>
> 
> APIs always change even if not intentional, someone will someday
> mess up and we will need an API version number to fix these kind of
> errors.

I don't understand. What use is an API version number if two
unintentionally different APIs have the same version number? Our
argument is that you can't trust API version numbers at all, which is
why you test for features, not numbers.

- Jordi G. H.