HAL 0.5.7 -> 0.5.8 API changes (and subtle breakage heh)

Milosz Derezynski internalerror at gmail.com
Sun Nov 26 15:44:07 PST 2006


Thanks, ok, will do :)
(Now that i'm working on the C++ wrapper i'll be watching the development
more closely so i _may_ actually notice something before i gets disted,
haha)

On 11/26/06, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Sun, 2006-11-26 at 20:54 +0100, Milosz Derezynski wrote:
> > I've noticed some subtle differences between hal 0.5.7.x and hal
> > 0.5.8.x which are not clear to me as to why this happened:
>
> I don't think HAL is internal-API stable. I think externally (methods
> and LibHal and things) we are pretty good at preserving compatibility,
> but internally I think it's fair game to change structures. I do think
> the consequences of changing of the index->idx name was perhaps not
> fully understood, and if you see any other API changes like this in the
> future, then please SHOUT LIKE MAD, and we'll see what we can do. :-)
>
> Richard.
>
>
>
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