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| This relies on introducing a new encoding to represent exception patching, which would be a forward-compatibility break | ||
| as is always the case when adding a new default encoding. |
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as is always the case when adding a new default encoding
This is not the purpose of this RFC, but just calling out this is going to continue to be annoying, I see a few alternatives here
- All new encodings need to be gated behind a Writer flag so they are not written unless you explicitly opt-in. Then after some number of releases they can be enabled by default.
- Come back around to the idea of distributing encodings as WASM binaries, seems unlikely to be picked up very widely
- NEVER allow new encodings within a single "edition". We'd need to formalize what an edition means, how frequently we drop one, and how we maintain and test encodings on develop between edition releases.
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Distilling some thoughts from the initial implementation work into RFC so we can all get on the same page before we go any further.