For all of these sorts of changes lets endevour to maintain backwards compatibility and put in deprecation notices. Ideally the deprecated APIs are removed at a major version change, e.g. when we hit 2.0.
On Friday, February 17, 2012, Filip Maj wrote: > I like that idea, Simon. Simple to add a method copy from toURL -> toURI, > add a console.log, tag for 1.5, done. > > As for updating the error codes - can we shelve that for 1.6? > > On 12-02-17 11:52 AM, "Simon MacDonald" > <simon.macdon...@gmail.com<javascript:;>> > wrote: > > >For the 1.5.0 release can we support <Entry>.toURI() and <Entry>.toURL()? > >We'll mark toURI as deprecated and remove it in 1.6.0 or 1.7.0. What do > >you > >think? > > > >As for the FileError codes. Grrrrr...why did they have to change them. > > > >Simon Mac Donald > >http://hi.im/simonmacdonald > > > > > >On Fri, Feb 17, 2012 at 2:36 PM, Becky Gibson > ><gibson.be...@gmail.com <javascript:;>>wrote: > > > >> I was running the mobile-spec after Shaz completed and checked in the > >>iOS > >> name change (THANKS, Shaz!) and found that several file tests fail. The > >> issue is the name change of the <Entry>.toURI() api to <Entry>.toURL(). > >> Checking on the W3C File API: Directories and Systems spec. this API was > >> indeed renamed from the October, 2010, version of the spec that we > >> implemented to the April and May, 2011 versions. The FileError codes > >>have > >> also been reassigned - although that has not been updated in the > >>unified-js > >> implementation. > >> > >> Other than the API name change and FileError code reassignments, I don't > >> see major changes in the specification. However, this will certainly > >>break > >> existing apps and I question making that change. I realize it has to > >>be > >> made sooner or later, but it might be best to wait for the api to be > >> finalized. If we are going to make this api change, then we should > >> probably also make the FileError changes to be consistent. And update > >>the > >> docs and make sure this is well documented. > >> > >> my two cents, > >> -becky > >> > >
