[coyotos-dev] IDL compatibility: the versioning nightmare

[Christopher Nelson]

On 7/10/07, Jonathan S. Shapiro <shap at eros-os.com> wrote:
>
> 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.


heh. I invented this great new thing! I am going to call it a "wheel."
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