[coyotos-dev] IDL compatibility: the versioning nightmare

[Jonathan S. Shapiro]

On Tue, 2007-07-10 at 11:32 -0400, Christopher Nelson wrote:

> I withdraw the suggestion for a "latest version" feature.  Instead, I
> would suggest that versions are part of the first-class type.   If you
> change the interface version that a method accepts/returns then you
> need to create a new version of your interface, just as you would if
> you changed the signature of a method from clearCrypto() to
> clearCrypto(loggerObject logger). 

This is precisely what the current system is already doing.

shap