Stop referring to GDExtension as experimental #10827
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Are we considering GDExtension non experimental as of 4.4, or as of 4.5 when that releases? |
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We discussed this at the GDExtension meeting on 2025-03-18, and I believe the consensus was that we were considering it non-experimental since 4.1 retroactively, because the only technical change we can point to as far as when it became non-experimental was the compatibility break in 4.1. Whereas if we were to say it became non-experimental in 4.4, it would be kind of artificial because nothing in particular changed in 4.4 in order to cross that threshold. However, I'm curious what other folks think! Relatedly, we're also planning to do a "GDExtension retrospective" blog post in order to "announce" that it's no longer experimental. |
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Now that #10631 is merged, I've rebased and taken this out of DRAFT |
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Adding this to the 4.5 milestone as it will not be cherrypickable, since #10631 is not. |
| break compatibility in order to fix major bugs or include critical features. | ||
| For example, GDExtensions created for Godot 4.0 aren't compatible with Godot | ||
| 4.1 (see :ref:`updating_your_gdextension_for_godot_4_1`). | ||
| There is one exception to this: extensions targeting Godot 4.0 will _not_ work with |
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| There is one exception to this: extensions targeting Godot 4.0 will **not** work with |
| minor versions, but not vice-versa. For example, a GDExtension targeting Godot 4.2 | ||
| should work just fine in Godot 4.3, but one targeting Godot 4.3 won't work in Godot 4.2. | ||
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Per the discussion at the previous GDExtension meeting, we think it's time to stop saying that GDExtension is experimental :-)
I'm going to mark this as a DRAFT so that it doesn't cause conflicts with #10631 - it'll be much easier to rebase this PR than that one
But we can still discuss these specific changes to the text