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+Date: Wed, 9 Oct 2013 10:08:50 -0400\r
+From: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>\r
+To: Mark Walters <markwalters1009@gmail.com>\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/11] cli: Separate current and deprecated format version\r
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+Quoth Mark Walters on Oct 08 at 7:48 am:\r
+> On Mon, 07 Oct 2013, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:\r
+> > Previously, the CLI would print a deprecation warning if a client\r
+> > requested any format version other than the current one. However, if\r
+> > we add fields that are backwards-compatible, but want clients to be\r
+> > able to depend on, we need to bump the version, but that doesn't make\r
+> > the older version deprecated.\r
+> >\r
+> > Hence, separate out the "minimum active" version and only print a\r
+> > warning for requests below this version number.\r
+> > ---\r
+> > notmuch-client.h | 5 +++++\r
+> > notmuch.c | 2 +-\r
+> > 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)\r
+> >\r
+> > diff --git a/notmuch-client.h b/notmuch-client.h\r
+> > index afb0ddf..8d986f4 100644\r
+> > --- a/notmuch-client.h\r
+> > +++ b/notmuch-client.h\r
+> > @@ -142,6 +142,11 @@ chomp_newline (char *str)\r
+> > /* The minimum supported structured output format version. Requests\r
+> > * for format versions below this will return an error. */\r
+> > #define NOTMUCH_FORMAT_MIN 1\r
+> > +/* The minimum non-deprecated structured output format version.\r
+> > + * Requests for format versions below this will print a stern warning.\r
+> > + * Must be >= NOTMUCH_FORMAT_MIN and < NOTMUCH_FORMAT_CUR.\r
+> > + */\r
+> \r
+> Should this be <= NOTMUCH_FORMAT_CUR ?\r
+\r
+Yes.\r
+\r
+> Best wishes\r
+> \r
+> Mark\r