This adds maintenance overhead but is a potential alternative. I would only flip the flag. I would prefer to make the default "legacy" output and innovate behind a "--output-format=v2" flag. That way tools do not break or have to change to pass in the new flag.
Ideally we should always version our output format - structured or not. Dinesh > On Jul 13, 2023, at 9:08 AM, German Eichberger via dev > <dev@cassandra.apache.org> wrote: > > Let's take this discussion in a different direction: If we add a --legacy > <version> argument where we are supporting an old version for those who > need/want it but have the (breaking) changes on the default this feels like a > compromise - and then we can deprecate the legacy format without impacting > innovation. We can also flip this with requiring a flag for the changed > format if we feel this is better. > > This let's us innovate without breaking anyone. Thoughts? > > Thanks, > German
