On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 12:38:24PM -0500, Adam Heath wrote: > On Fri, 23 Sep 2005, Thomas Bushnell BSG wrote: > > Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> writes: > > > How else do you handle the case of a library which implements a line > > > protocol (presumably Unix sockets, in this case), and that protocol has > > > changed incompatibly? > > You implement the new protocol on a new port, so that both the old and > > new jackd can be run at the same time. > No, you design the protocol from the beginning to have the first token be a > protocol version, followed by a magic number(which could be different per > version). That doesn't make the new daemon any more compatible with the old clients if the code isn't kept around to implement the old protocol. -- Steve Langasek Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS Debian Developer to set it on, and I can move the world. vorlon@debian.org http://www.debian.org/
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