On 24 Feb 2009, at 13:52, Patrick Antivackis wrote:
It's like all politically correct terminology where you use a stupid
expression in order to be as neutral as possible.
You have a point here, it is about avoiding conflict. But I don't
think
we're looking for a neutral term here, but one with a better name.
I'd go with _access_token if it weren't too long. _rev is nice and
short
and _token might as well be _wibble. API design is hard.
May be it's about conflict, but as it's also a previous release,
it's by
definition a revision. The fact that the revision is no more there
is not
changing the fact that it's a revision.
Haha, language ambiguity for the win :) I meant conflict between
users applying prior understanding of the term "revision" to CouchDB
revisions causing a conflict. I did not mean using _rev as a token to
manage write conflicts for a document. I need to be more careful with
these words :)
That's why if the name is changed, the functionality to access a
previous
revision should be removed.
I could see that being a valid conclusion and I think that would be
covered with disabling the feature by default and make it an opt-in
like Damien suggested. We also could just nuke it completely and
wait for complaints before reconsidering making it an opt-in.
Cheers
Jan
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IMO if you change this
attribute name it's even better to remove all possibilities to a
access a
previous rev if still there, and change it's value by a timestamp
Regards
2009/2/24 Antony Blakey <antony.bla...@gmail.com>
On 24/02/2009, at 12:51 PM, Antony Blakey wrote:
The project founder and the PMC, are all committed to that
replication
model, which is derived from Notes.
BTW I'm the only one in the community that has expressed any strong
desire
to change this - I'm not implying any community division, just
pointing
out
that it's both an historical artifact, and accepted by the major
contributors and committers.
Antony Blakey
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