From: Paul Brannan <pbrannan@...>
Date: 2008-09-24T06:19:53+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:18818] Re: mv trunk/include/ruby/node.h to trunk/node.h

On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 04:58:58AM +0900, SASADA Koichi wrote:
> I moved trunk/include/ruby/node.h to trunk/node.h.  On 1.9, only
> include/* files are installed, so node.h is no longer installed
> file.  This is because saving ABI.  node.h includes version
> sensitive structure, and there is a plan to change it after release
> 1.9.1.  So we decided to move it.

What changes are planned to this structure?

> If some extension rely on node.h of 1.9.1, the extension can not be
> used by 1.9.2 or later.

Rice uses node.h to attach type conversion metadata to each method it
defines.  I would be happy to see node.h become private if I had an
alternate way to attach and retrieve this information.

Paul