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ipld / go-ipld-prime

Golang interfaces for the IPLD Data Model, with core Codecs included, IPLD Schemas support, and some handy functional transforms tools.
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rename and deprecate the multicodec package #259

Open mvdan opened 2 years ago

mvdan commented 2 years ago

To avoid confusing conflict with https://github.com/multiformats/go-multicodec, which came first, and really can't have another name than "multicodec". Whereas the multicodec package is a registry, so we can call it multiregistry or codecregistry.

mvdan commented 2 years ago

One more detail: we shouldn't simply move the package, as that would break downstreams immediately. We can move the package and add a "forwarding" package in the old location, forwarding the APIs, and being marked as deprecated in favor of the new one.

rvagg commented 1 year ago

turns out to be too disruptive; I'm going to say this isn't worth it, see also #467

rvagg commented 1 year ago

Reopened based on feedback @ https://github.com/ipld/go-ipld-prime/pull/467#issuecomment-1341762950 but putting this in the backlog as it's hard to justify as a priority with limited bandwidth at this stage.