On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 04:43:25PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrangé wrote: > On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 04:32:27PM +0100, Erik Skultety wrote: > > Unfortunately, in order to support the new flags, the last patch introduces > > an > > API breakage as the convention we use for the bindings is to also enforce > > types > > for flags. > > Yes, unfortunately this need to break ABI is fallout resulting from > my decision to make the Go bindings do stricter enum validation that > we have had at the C level.
How would this affect the ABI? Both the old and the new enum have the same int value 0x01, with the only difference that you could have fed a few more enums into the API even though we documented that they were unsupported for that usage. > > On balance I think that is still the right tradeoff to have stronger > type checking as it catches real errors in app code. > > Due to the widespread use of "vendoring" in the Go community where > apps fixate on specific git commit hashes of their dependandancies, > the fallout is more limited and will mostly only impact devs at the > time they decide to explicitly sync to newer git. > > So for all three > > Reviewed-by: Daniel P. Berrangé <berra...@redhat.com> Pushed. Thanks, Erik -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@redhat.com https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list
