On 11/06/2015 08:52 AM, Markus Armbruster wrote: > Eric Blake <ebl...@redhat.com> writes: > >> qapi-code-gen.txt already claims that types, commands, and >> events share a common namespace; set this in stone by further >> documenting that our introspection output will never have >> collisions with the same name tied to more than one meta-type. >>
>> For these reasons, we simply document that clients should not >> rely on any particular order of items in introspection output. >> And since it is now a documented part of the contract, we have >> the freedom to later rearrange output if needed, without >> worrying about breaking well-written clients that were already >> aware that they had to do linear searches. > > Well, any kind of search that doesn't rely on sorting. Suggest to drop > the "that were already..." clause. Happy to do that on commit. I don't see that phrase dropped in your v1 pull request. Worth fixing? -- Eric Blake eblake redhat com +1-919-301-3266 Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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