On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:08:38 -0500, Austin Clements <amdragon@mit.edu> wrote:

> I added a "notmuch_database_remove_message_get" to the public API that's
> just like "notmuch_database_remove_message" except that it also returns a
> notmuch_message_t if other instances of the message still exist.  It feels
> clunky to have two almost identical variants of this function.  Is this the
> preferred way to change the public API?  Or should I just add the argument
> to the existing function and fix the other three calls to it?

Just adding an argument to the public API without library version bump would
break my python bindings. So if we modify the public API, I would prefer
if we rename the function and remove the old one completely. That I
could detect at least.

Sebastian