On Wed, 2008-10-08 at 14:46 +0200, Cedric BAIL wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    As it seems like a good time to break the EFL agains :-). I would
> like to discuss API/ABI break of eet. I am currently working on adding
> crypto to eet. My current code only require a key and generate the
> needed salt and IV for the encryption. So I need to add one more
> parameter (the key) to all read and write operation of eet. I have
> currently two possibilities, double the number of function, or just
> change the existing one. Of course the later solution sounds a little
> bit cleaner, but it will break all eet applications.
> 
>    A quick search of eet_open in the svn give me 43 differents file
> using it. Sounds like not a big deal to break it. This could be also
> be a good time to cleanup the parameters of
> eet_data_descriptor_element_add also.
> 
>    So guys, what do you think of this move ?

Wasn't eet 1.0 released a couple of weeks ago? Breaking the API after
the supposed stable 1.0 release just screams wrong in so many ways.


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