On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:23 AM, Guido Trotter <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > > On Fri, May 24, 2013 at 10:18 AM, Thomas Thrainer <[email protected]>wrote: > >> The Text backend now parses network UUID (comma separated) and >> serializes them in the same form. >> The test data is adapted to the new format. >> >> > Would it make sense to have it at the end and optional, as Klaus did for > other additions to the text backend he had, so old text backend data is not > broken? > > Are there a lot of text data files around (except tests)? I'd prefer to break backwards compatibility for internal and test stuff, as it's easy to update the (test-)data, and it simplifies the code. Also, especially for the text backend, what would happen when we add another field? How to decide which one was actually specified if just one was? This would just postpone the problem until then... > thanks, > > Guido > > -- Thomas Thrainer | Software Engineer | [email protected] | Google Germany GmbH Dienerstr. 12 80331 München Registergericht und -nummer: Hamburg, HRB 86891 Sitz der Gesellschaft: Hamburg Geschäftsführer: Graham Law, Katherine Stephens
