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Re: [8/9] multiple locations
Joel Brobecker wrote:
>> Nevertheless, it's well known that Emacs does that since time
>> immemoriam, so we should avoid breaking at least Emacs, IMO.
>
> I agree that we should avoid breaking existing tools as much as we can.
> This request in particular seems reasonable, we just have to find the
> right syntax (Daniel's suggestion looks good to me).
As I say in another email, I might be able to implement using <PENDING>
as address in all cases.
But generally, trying to keeping CLI back compatible have to stop
at some time -- if we keep this "don't break CLI clients even if
CLI clients were deprecated from some time" attitude, it will result
in new features being available via MI only.
- Volodya