While I'm developing the C/CIF library I've detected one issue, and I don't know a good solution for this problem:
The library provides functions to map the application dependent country code to an application independent code - ISO 3166-1 will be used - in this way any application can recognize the country codes. As soon as a new country code exists - e.g. a new country is born, as a split from another country - the library will be updated to support the new country code. But not any application is updating immediately to the newer library version, this means that an application with an older library version cannot process properly an archive which contains the new country code, it has no defined mapping for this. This is unsatisfying, so any archive should be forward compatible, this means also an older library version should be able to process newer archive versions with the new country code. Does anyone know a good method how to implement such a forward compatibility? Probably this is not achievable, and unknown country codes should be discarded? Cheers, Gregor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ One dashboard for servers and applications across Physical-Virtual-Cloud Widest out-of-the-box monitoring support with 50+ applications Performance metrics, stats and reports that give you Actionable Insights Deep dive visibility with transaction tracing using APM Insight. http://ad.doubleclick.net/ddm/clk/290420510;117567292;y _______________________________________________ Scidb-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scidb-users
