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Re: [PROPOSAL] Checking for supported packets - revised
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 09:24 -0400, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> - If your stub responds to qSupported, the response must include
> every packet it supports.
> - If your stub does not respond to qSupported, only a fixed list
> of packets will be used or probed for. So 'qOffsets' will still
> be tried, but the new qFooBaz (added after qSupported) will be
> assumed missing.
I would vote for this one. In essence it says "we will cut some
slack to stubs too old to have 'qSupported', but we expect it to
be there for newer stubs".
This sound reasonable to me.
-=# Paul #=-