README: Add more info about "backwards compatibility" #3055
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Add more clarifying statements about our definition of "backwards compatibility" -- adding an example with static linking and another with containers.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Squyres jsquyres@cisco.com
It would be good to get this into the v2.1.0 release because of some questions that came up about the definition of "backwards compatibility" during the v2.1.0 release process.
@hppritcha @rhc54