On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 01:04:23PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 04:05:58PM -0300, Eduardo Habkost wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 02:53:40PM +0800, Peter Xu wrote: > > [...] > > > These properties should only be used for debugging/testing purpose, > > > and we should not guarantee any interface compatibility for them (just > > > like HMP). > > > > If we don't guarantee compatibility, the property names need to > > be prefixed with "x-". > > Indeed. Sorry I missed that. > > But I'd say it is slightly awkward to add "x-" for all these (for me, > "x-" means more like "this is not stable and experimental, use it > carefully", while this does not suite for this series). Maybe I can > just remove this sentence in commit log (I think I am just a little > bit frightened by the compatibility problems)...
"x-" in property names doesn't mean "experimental", but just "not part of the stable interface". If you have the tiniest doubt about command-line compatibility, I think it won't hurt to use "x-". -- Eduardo
