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Elektra 0.11.0
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According to symbols.map the public core API has 124 symbols¹, which is arguable too much for a key-value API which has as highest goal simplicity.
In particular following areas have many functions and are not simple:
The urgency of this decision is that API can be easily introduced later but we cannot get rid of it after 1.0.
The exact API changes are not listed here, because it would just a long list that could just as easily be found in the Git history.
However, the API changes follow these rules:
ksHead
and ksTail
keyMeta
/keySetMeta
to directly read/write the metadata KeySet of a KeykeyGet*Size
to key*Size
ksRemove
function to remove a Key at a specific indexelektraMalloc
(e.g. elektraFormat
), as well as all the helper functions that only enhance standard APIs with additional error checks (e.g. elektraStrCmp
)ksCut
, ksDeepDup
, ksCopyInternal
and other functions that should never have been publicksPop
)elektra
as described in Elektra Prefix, and use KeySet
instead of ks
(also applies to names above)¹ the 124 symbols are (as found by @kodebach):