[pacman-dev] alpm_db_get_pkgcache and alpm_db_get_grpcache rename

[Sebastian Nowicki]

On 27/12/2008, at 11:53 PM, Xavier wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:46 PM, Sebastian Nowicki  
> <sebnow at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Recently the alpm_db_get_{pkg,grp}cache() functions were renamed to
>> alpm_db_get_{pkg,grp}cache()[1]. Since this is a public API change,
>> shouldn't the old functions perhaps simply be deprecated and  
>> "alias" the new
>> functions, instead of dropping them completely? I'd imagine this  
>> would
>> potentially break some front-ends if libalpm gets updated, as was  
>> the case
>> with a project of mine.
>>
>> [1]: commit: d05882db9e417244fa580c4697b45333faffcc79
>>
>
> This will only appear in 3.3 which does not even have any clear
> roadmap so which looks quite far away from now.
> It won't be in the next 3.2.2 release.

There would probably still need to be some transition stage. As long  
as you guys are aware of the potential problem, I don't really mind ;).