[Telepathy] Announce: telepathy-spec 0.19.3 (also 0.19.2)

[Simon McVittie]

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On Wed, 31 Mar 2010 at 22:12:02 -0500, Matt Rogers wrote:
> On Wednesday 31 March 2010 11:04:27 am Simon McVittie wrote:
> > * fd.o #26837: rename Sent_Message_Token to Protocol_Message_Token (smcv)
> 
> If you're changing stable API, is it really stable? ;) IOW, what happens to 
> libraries that haven't implemented the newest version of the spec yet?

In principle, you're right, and this isn't one of the changes that the
telepathy-spec README says we reserve the right to make.

In practice, Protocol_Message_Token is just a string, and I'm not aware of
any binding that requires you to name string types (or even cares whether they
have a name); the name is just for documentation purposes, to be able to say
"this string and this string are taken from the same namespace".

If this causes problems for a binding you're maintaining or using, let us
know; we could (re-)introduce a deprecated Sent_Message_Token type in 0.19.4
which just says "this is the same thing as a Protocol_Message_Token", and
your binding could skip straight from 0.19.1 to 0.19.4 without trying to
implement 0.19.[23]. I don't think that actually helps anyone, though :-)

    Simon
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