Re: [PATCH] macros: make SPICE_CONTAINEROF more typesafe

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On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 10:30:53AM -0500, Frediano Ziglio wrote:
> > 
> > Hey,
> > 
> > I just realized that this patch breaks the build of spice 0.12.6 (and
> > earlier). I don't think upgrading spice-protocol should cause such
> > breakage, if we can't turn this to a warning, I would revert the patch
> > (or wrap it in some #ifdef SPICE_STRICT_TYPE_CHECK)
> > 
> > Christophe
> > 
> 
> Won't be better to fix the code?

We cannot fix the code of already released spice-server versions.

> And why old versions should use a newer spice-protocol ?

Imo the question is rather the opposite one, spice-protocol has been
backward-compatible so far, any new enough spice-protocol release can be
used to build a release of spice-server. I don't think this patch is a
very good reason to stop doing that.

Christophe

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