On 05/11/2024 22:21, Jelte Fennema-Nio wrote:
On Mon, 4 Nov 2024 at 20:42, Heikki Linnakangas <hlinn...@iki.fi> wrote:
Having spent some time playing with this, I quite like option C: break
compatibility, but provide an out-of-tree header file with
*forward*-compatibility macros. That encourages extension authors to
adapt to new idioms, but avoids having to sprinkle extension code with
#if version checks to support old versions.
+1 maintaining a subset of these things for every extension is kind of a pain
My plan is to put this on the Wiki
Why the wiki and not as a file in the repo? Seems like it would be
nice to update this file together with patches that introduce such
breakages. To be clear, I think it shouldn't be possible to #include
the file, such a forward compatibility file should always be
copy-pasted. But having it in the same place as the code seems useful,
just like we update docs together with the code.
I thought of the Wiki so that it could updated more casually by
extension authors. But sure, it could be a file in the main repo too.
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Heikki Linnakangas
Neon (https://neon.tech)
