[PATCH v3 03/13] new: Don't report version after upgrade

Austin Clements amdragon at MIT.EDU
Sat Aug 23 15:59:45 PDT 2014


Quoth Jani Nikula on Aug 23 at  6:39 pm:
> On Fri, 01 Aug 2014, Austin Clements <amdragon at MIT.EDU> wrote:
> > The version number has always been pretty meaningless to the user and
> > it's about to become even more meaningless with the introduction of
> > "features".  Hopefully, the database will remain on version 3 for some
> > time to come; however, the introduction of new features over time in
> > version 3 will necessitate upgrades within version 3.  It would be
> > confusing if we always tell the user they've been "upgraded to version
> > 3".  If the user wants to know what's new, they should read the news.
> 
> I think this is good for now.
> 
> What do you think about adding notmuch_database_get_features(), and
> printing that?

Mark had a similar comment, so here's my reply:
id:20140727162426.GF13893 at mit.edu

I'm happy with adding more transparency around this, though I'd prefer
to do it as follow-up to avoid expanding this series and because I'm
pretty sure adding something like notmuch_database_get_features
wouldn't require any non-trivial changes to the stuff in this series.

> BR,
> Jani.


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