Re: [hwloc-devel] backward API compat or not?

2010-04-20 Thread Samuel Thibault
Brice Goglin, le Tue 20 Apr 2010 19:54:13 +0200, a écrit : > I tend to think that we should just drop the get_system_obj() and make > it clear that people have to fix everything, not everything except foo > and bar. I'd tend to agree. We should however mention the previous names in the documentat

[hwloc-devel] backward API compat or not?

2010-04-20 Thread Brice Goglin
We have a static inline in hwloc/helper.h to replace the old get_system_obj() into the new get_root_obj(). But there are other API changes in 1.0 which have no similar compat wrapper. For instance replacing HWLOC_OBJ_PU instead of HWLOC_OBJ_PROC probably broke every hwloc user on earth. So I tend t