On Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:51:04 +0100 Alessandro Zummo <azummo-lists at towertech.it> wrote:
> > > > Just adding the new frames & options and leave it at that, like > > planned ? > > > What you're proposing is just perverting the API and an inacceptable > > change in the behaviour of the current API. > > I would like to avoid exposing the new frame types to unaware > frontends. replying to myself, that means I'm gone banana :) the options are: a) add types and options, with little risk for older backends. b) add and protect via current api mangling c) add and protect via new api. option c means that some linking combinations will not work, like linking an 1.1 aware frontend with a non 1.1 aware backend. I guess this shouldn't happen. If it happens, it's fixable by adding a few lines of code to the backend. at this point, I never heard of any frontend that does directly linking of a backend. while I favour option c , I'm not against any of them. -- Best regards, Alessandro Zummo, Tower Technologies - Torino, Italy http://www.towertech.it
