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- Subject: Re: [ANN] LuaFileSystem 1.2.1 Released (Andre Carregal)
- From: Sam Roberts <sroberts@...>
- Date: Wed, 23 May 2007 11:07:13 -0700
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:57:41PM -0300, Tomas Guisasola Gorham wrote:
> On Wed, 23 May 2007, Jerome Vuarand wrote:
> > > lfs.linkattributes("link", "mode") --> "link"
> > > lfs.attributes("link", "mode") --> "file"
> > Is it not possible to add a new attribute to the attributes table ? This
> > approach wouldn't break existing apps. Something like:
> >
> > lfs.attributes("normalfile", "mode") --> "file"
> > lfs.attributes("normalfile", "symlink") --> false
> > lfs.attributes("linkedfile", "mode") --> "file"
> > lfs.attributes("linkedfile", "symlink") --> true
> But what about the other information? They are not relevant?
They are relevant, and introducing new names breaks compatibility, if
you define compatibility as "returning a table with the same members".
Sam
