Axel Beckert wrote on Mon, 11 May 2020 17:01 +0200: > Daniel Shahaf wrote: > > Daniel Shahaf wrote on Mon, 11 May 2020 14:29 +0000: > > > using _arguments from git HEAD with zsh 5.8-4 [...] is not a > > > supported use case. > > Is this something that might affect users when migrating from zsh 5.8 > to a potential 5.9, i.e. something we might need to put into NEWS.Debian? >
I don't think so, or I'd have added a note to the upstream README when I committed the _arguments change upstream. The interface between _arguments and comparguments is an implementation detail with minimal user-facing documentation. > > Citation: workers/37986. > > Thanks! (see https://www.zsh.org/cgi-bin/mla/redirect?WORKERNUMBER=37986) > Thanks for fully-fledging that link ☺ > Ok, this reads more that it is cared about backwards-compatiblity for > 3rd party completion, but not about backwards-compatiblity to older > zsh release for our own completions inside the zsh source, right? > Correct. The interface between completion functions and the completion system (e.g., between _git or _curl on the one hand and _files or _arguments on the other) _is_ an API with compatibility promises. The interface between _arguments and comparguments, on the other hand, is an implementation detail, so they should be upgraded in lockstep. > (If that's right, we don't need to mention anything.) +1 Cheers, Daniel
