[PATCH 06 of 15] speedy: custom wire protocol

[Augie Fackler]

On Dec 13, 2012, at 3:34 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan <bos at serpentine.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Dec 12, 2012 at 11:23 PM, Tomasz Kłeczek
> <tomasz.kleczek at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
>> I'm also a /little/ weirded out by the lack of a version (or capability)
>> handshake in the protocol, but perhaps it fits within YAGNI.
>> 
>>> 
> 
>> I thought that adding such mechanisms at this point would be an overkill..
> 
> 
> It might be right now, but almost every time we have not had such a
> capability, we've regretted it and had to retrofit it after a few months. I
> don't think you should do it immediately, but we'll need to add this before
> this sees any real use.

Fair enough, but in that case we should file a bug that the protocol is incomplete so we fix it before shipping a release with the weaker protocol.