[hunchentoot-devel] Request methods suffixed with * -- not backwards compatible?

Chaitanya Gupta mail at chaitanyagupta.com
Mon Sep 1 16:21:20 UTC 2008


On Mon, Sep 1, 2008 at 6:57 PM, Hans Hübner <hans at huebner.org> wrote:
>
> Yes.  Code for the current release version of Hunchentoot will not be
> compatible to code for the next release version.  You need to either
> stay with the old release, code for the new release and use the dev
> version or port forward once the new release is out.  The new release
> is will take several weeks to show up.

:(

Does it have to break so badly? I don't see the *-suffixed versions
giving any real advantage, and the slot accessors can just be renamed
to something else -- e.g. request-get-parameters, etc. -- instead of
currently exported symbols.

Chaitanya



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