Quoting Garrett Rooney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
1.3.x is compatible with 1.2.x in the sense that programs compiled against 1.2.x must continue to run against 1.3.x. The reverse is not true, which is why in minor version number bumps we can add new functions. To remove functions (or macros for that matter, although that's for reasons of compile time compat, not runtime) we need to bump the major version.
Right. Given that, then we can have (like you said) a bunch of new name macros defined for all the exisiting functions with incorrect names in 1.3.x. The get_name functions can indeed become name_get immediately - there should be no harm in that.
And 2.x can then reverse the situation by defining backward compatibility macros for incorrect names and have proper new function names, while deprecating the old ones.
Or should we just keep the existing broken names until 2.x? It'll be less hassle...
-- Bojan
