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[Frank Karlitschek]

On 07.01.2011, at 12:59, Artur de Souza wrote:

> Hey Frank!
> 
> Quoting Frank Karlitschek <karlitschek at kde.org>:
>> Introducing custom parameter kills OCS as a standard because this means that not all clients can talk to all servers.
>> This might not be a problem if some is using only plasma and your server but it breaks the idea of OCS.
> 
> Even if it's an optional parameter? I mean, if the client understands a superset of arguments of the OCS standard it shouldn't be a problem to talk to any other OCS server right?
> 
> I understand your point for *required* parameters, but if this is an *optional* one, it should work for everybody, doesn't it?
> 
> Cheers! :)
> 
> 
> Artur


Well,

the question is what happens if a client send an "optional" parameter and the server doesn´t understand it. I think in this case all servers beside Aarons will ignore the parameter and return the wrong result set. The client has the impression that there are updates available for all installed plasmoids every time it checks. So this breaks compatibility.

I´m also not sure why the current update system using the version field is not usable.

It would be really cool to stay compatible at least inside KDE ;-)

Cheers
Frank



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Frank Karlitschek
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