On 5/07/2012 4:16 p.m., Robert Collins wrote:
On Thu, Jul 5, 2012 at 4:00 PM, Amos Jeffries wrote:
Why do we need backwards compat in the new protocol?
As an alternative, consider setting a protocol= option on the helpers,
making the default our latest-and-greatest,a nd folk running
third-party helpers can set protocl=v1 or whatever to get backwards
compat.
This lets us also warn when we start deprecating the old protocol,
that its going away.
-Rob
I'm trying to avoid adding more options and complexity with this. To be
done properly that would mean adding whole new config design bits to set
protocol= on several of the more hidden helper lookups. But with one
shared parser and a fallback per-helper parser handling the blob cases
for backward compatibility we can migrate people over without any config
change.
Amos
