From bc4a61e67efe0479973b9e6f0a26fb5e7a670382 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Harl Date: Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:46:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] collectd-perl(5): Added a note about the stability of the API. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Harl Signed-off-by: Florian Forster --- src/collectd-perl.pod | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) diff --git a/src/collectd-perl.pod b/src/collectd-perl.pod index 6396bc8e..dac80bf7 100644 --- a/src/collectd-perl.pod +++ b/src/collectd-perl.pod @@ -557,6 +557,14 @@ reasons. Therefore, END blocks are only executed once when collectd shuts down. You should not rely on END blocks anyway - use B instead. +=item + +The perl plugin exports the internal API of collectd which is considered +unstable and subject to change at any time. We try hard to not break backwards +compatibility in the Perl API during the life cycle of one major release. +However, this cannot be guaranteed at all times. Watch out for warnings +dispatched by the perl plugin after upgrades. + =back =head1 KNOWN BUGS -- 2.11.0