As far as the binary encoding is concerned, it won't care. Obviously any
code involved would need to be changed, and it *might* impact the text-based
encoding (I don't know for sure; I simply don't use this encoding).
Marc
On 18 November 2010 16:56, Cameron wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I already kn
Yes, renaming fields is a wire compatible change. You might break things
that use human readable formats like TextFormat, and of course any code that
references the old field name.
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Cameron wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to this, but I haven't f
I'm pretty sure I already know the answer to this, but I haven't found
it spelled out anywhere so I wanted to ask to be sure:
Can you change or rename a field name without affecting backwards
compatibility?
I assume the answer is yes because you qualify a field with a tag
number. Field names are