On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 15:37 -0700, Mark Atwood wrote: > in server/sql_plugin.cc > > there are three arays, min_plugin_info_interface_version, > cur_plugin_info_interface_version, and > max_plugin_info_interface_version, and then the plugin structure > declares a "version" as it's very first integer member. > > In theory, this is so that MySQL could version the plugin ABI, and > allow a range of versions. > > In practice, this never worked, and probably never will. There is no > point in versioning our ABI until we have an ABI other than "the whole > server". > > I want to rip it all out. It will make the plugin system simpler, > remove code that adds no value.
I agree. In fact, i think we should adopt a linux-kernel style approach to module API/ABI - just makes our life simpler. -- Stewart Smith ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.flamingspork.com/
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