[parted-devel] libparted API nomenclature & code-repetition

[Otavio Salvador]

"Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <debarshi.ray at gmail.com> writes:

>> All this changes should be done for 2.0 release. Not for 1.8. Also
>> because we don't want to diverge a lot in API from previous releases.
>
> Quite right. I was wondering whether we can still provide the older,
> ie. the ones we are using now, names even after doing the clean-up for
> some time. The older names can be 'aliased or 'typedef'ed to the
> newer, cleaner names for some releases, say till 2.5 comes out. That
> way we can give our users sufficient time to migrate their
> applications.

And mark them deprecated. Yes... that's a good option. I like it.

>> Would be great if you could get darcs and make one branch just for API
>> clean-up. I would suggest you to read some links:
>
> Sure. Thanks for the links. I am new to darcs, so it would be very helpful. :-)

Feel free to ask for help.

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