[petsc-dev] Deprecation strategy for Enums

[Smith, Barry F.]

   Junchao,

     Do you want to give this a go? Maybe it is a script in lib/petsc/bin/maint or a makefile rule that takes two git branch names and reports any changes between them (presumably by running ./configure && make twice to generate the libraries and making a copy of one branches includes so they can be compared with the other)

   Barry


> On Apr 9, 2019, at 4:42 PM, Jed Brown via petsc-dev <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> wrote:
> 
> "Zhang, Junchao via petsc-dev" <petsc-dev at mcs.anl.gov> writes:
> 
>> We should have a mechanism to auto-detect API-breaking commits and then we can fix them before release.
> 
> We should have our CI system flag PRs that fail this checker to confirm
> that it's documented in changes/dev.html and that the change is really
> necessary.
> 
> https://lvc.github.io/abi-compliance-checker/