[pacman-dev] alpm_db_get_pkgcache and alpm_db_get_grpcache rename

[Aaron Griffin]

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:14 PM, Sebastian Nowicki <sebnow at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 ;).

If we stick a note in the ChangeLog, that's usually enough for most
projects. "API changed. Fix your crap". Lots of other projects do
that.