This means I (and people making their own plugins) don't need to go and
update each and every plugin once the version in the interface string
gets bumped after a (silent) ABI break. Such as when new virtual
functions get added, as those often lead to strange crashes if the
plugins don't get rebuilt after.
The plugins will now use this macro, which means they'll
automatically embed an interface string that was present in the base
class header at build time. However, when the base class updates, the
previous string is still embedded in the plugin binary, which will then
fail to load -- this being automatic doesn't mean the original purpose
is lost. Subsequently rebuilding the plugins from source will make them
pick up the updated interface string again.
Having code snippets in docs compiled and checked for syntax and
outdated API errors is great. In theory. In practice the people reading
docs have NO IDEA how much needless suffering goes into making the
compiler collaborate with me on such a seemingly simple task. UGH.
Here the benefit is especially clear -- as Containers::Pair is trivially
copyable with trivial types, all growable arrays can make use of
std::realloc() while with the STL variant a silly constructor, copy
constructor, destructor had to be used.
Additionally, we no longer need to take explicit care of libc++ and MSVC
STL where returning a std::pair<bool, Containers::String> as
return {{}, Containers::String{..., <deleter>}};
would caused an unnecessary copy instead of a move, losing the custom
deleter in the process. Yay!
There's a <Corrade/Containers/PairStl.h> include for backwards
compatibility purposes, but obviously it would only work for the return
type of validate*() and cases where an initializer list was passed to a
list-of-pairs-taking functions, and not a concretely typed ArrayView.
Those functions were though mostly the linker API which isn't
implemented by any plugin yet, so it shouldn't be *that* breaking to
users. Neverteless, I'm trying to do this breaking change rather sooner
than later to prevent pain further down the road when the Vulkan APIs
and SPIR-V pipeline gets widely used.
First of all, it's quite unusual to have an array of const chars. Then,
it was not really handling file opening errors, which is actually a VERY
BAD THING when you are wondering why your include isn't parsed.
Vladimír Vondruš