Are there any plans to add source compatibility ch...
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mbonnin
12/17/2021, 3:58 PMAre there any plans to add source compatibility checks to https://github.com/Kotlin/binary-compatibility-validator ? As of now it's super easy to change a parameter name and not notice it until calling code breaks
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mbonnin
12/17/2021, 3:59 PMAlso not sure what that would require? JVM binary compatibility is a problem that has been studied for a long time but Kotlin source compatibility might be something completely different?
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elizarov
12/18/2021, 8:31 AMThe rule of thumb is that any change you do to your public API breaks some source of a client. Write more tests for use-cases that you care about.
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mbonnin
12/18/2021, 11:53 AMIs there a particular reason there can't be something like japicmp but that can read metadata to do more checks for kotlin? The parameter name change problem looks relatively solvable?
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elizarov
12/18/2021, 12:03 PMYou can. Parameter names are available in Kotlin metadata. It is just source compatibility is a much more complex topic than binary compatibility.
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