On Tue, 12 Jul 2011 11:26:09 +0200 Jes Sorensen <jes.soren...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 07/11/11 22:35, Luiz Capitulino wrote: > >> Sorry that is no go, you just broke the hmp implementation - you cannot > >> > change the hmp behavior like that. > > HMP uses positional arguments, so changing argument names makes no > > difference. And, apart from some exceptions, it's not an stable interface, > > anyway... > > > > I guess you're right about the naming not affecting the hmp interface. > However hmp is far more usable to end users than qmp, so yes it does > matter not to change the interface at random. Right, but we don't do it at random. Actually, it's not something that happens often and we always consider the impact. However, hmp doesn't have stability guarantees as qmp has. In this specific case, no hmp user visible change has been made.
