Re: [Deskbar] Anticipating future backwards incompatibility
- From: Sebastian Pölsterl <marduk k-d-w org>
- To: Nigel Tao <nigel tao gnome gmail com>
- Cc: deskbar-applet-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: [Deskbar] Anticipating future backwards incompatibility
- Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2007 12:21:54 +0200
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Nigel Tao schrieb:
> Fortunately, we can distinguish between 2.18 (and 2.16 and 2.14) style
> Handlers and 2.20 style Modules because the former live in
> ~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/handlers and the latter in
> ~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/modules. Which is all well and good. But
> suppose that we do another refactoring in 2.26 that breaks API
> compatibility again. We might not find a suitable name that isn't
> "Handler" or "Module".
>
Changed modules folder to modules-2.20-compatible
> Thus, it might be better to rename ~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/modules to
> ~/.gnome2/deskbar-applet/modules-2.20-compatible
>
> Similarly, we might want to rename history_new.pickle to
> history-2.20-compatible.pickle, or in general, stamp a version on
> anything persistent, in anticipation of future backwards
> incompatibility.
>
Changed history file to history-2.20-compatible
- --
Greetings,
Sebastian Pölsterl
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