James Carlson wrote:
But the second reason is the most important one: it wouldn't be
compatible. Existing eventhook scripts aren't aware that this third
argument exists, so they don't know that they need to do anything
special. If I added a third argument, then it would run the risk of
having those existing scripts do unexpected things.
I agree that it's unfortunate to fork v4 and v6 here, especially given
the history, but I don't quite see a good way around it.
Okay, grumble grumble, I'm convinced that this is a necessary evil.
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Darren J Moffat
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