From: Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org>
To: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>,
notmuch mailing list <notmuch@notmuchmail.org>
Subject: Re: NOTMUCH_STATUS_LAST_STATUS problematic across additive library upgrades
Date: Mon, 07 Dec 2015 15:37:33 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87vb89n83m.fsf@wondoo.home.cworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y4d5q38i.fsf@alice.fifthhorseman.net>
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On Mon, Dec 07 2015, Daniel Kahn Gillmor wrote:
> In particular, if a user builds against version X of the library, then
> version X+1 is released with a new status code (but no
> backward-incompatible API/ABI changes that would require an SONAME
> bump), then the value of NOTMUCH_STATUS_LAST_STATUS would change, but
> the application using notmuch wouldn't know about it.
Can you envision a scenario where this would actually lead to a bug?
It's meant to provide a convenience. It's clearly documented as "not an
actual status value", so, yes, no client code should ever be passing
that value into the library.
-Carl
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-07 23:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-07 22:54 NOTMUCH_STATUS_LAST_STATUS problematic across additive library upgrades Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2015-12-07 23:37 ` Carl Worth [this message]
2015-12-08 0:19 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
2015-12-08 5:22 ` Carl Worth
2015-12-08 15:55 ` Daniel Kahn Gillmor
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