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Symbian’s API Change Control Process

by martin on September 8th, 2010

The Symbian Developer wiki defines a process for public API changes to the Symbian platform. This involves a submitting a Change Request (CR) to an Architecture Council for approval before code is integrated. The main principles of their API development process are:

  • Public APIs must remain backwards compatible during their lifetime.
  • Public APIs can be extended with non-disruptive changes.
  • Public APIs must go through a deprecation period before removal.

For details, see:

The API process is illustrated with the following figure:

From → Versioning

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