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This GitHub project is a public mirror of the code.

Currently, the development of Hisho is performed in a closed git repository with a private issue tracker.

But, Issues and Pull Requests here on GitHub will still be reviewed and responded to.
PRs, when accepted, will be merged offline and then closed.

Why is the source code mirrored here then, when development is closed?
Just like most of my software, I do not expect Hisho to be used by anyone, so having a fully open development cycle is overkill.
But, because Hisho is MPL-2.0 licensed, I want the source code to be open to allow contributions in the future.

I am currently working on Hisho v1.2, in which I added the "explain" commands for commands and builds.

While adding support for explain, I stumbled across a huge deficit in Rust: There is no argument overloading.
So it is not possible to have two functions with the same name, but different argument types or counts.
A function hello(String) and a hello(String, bool) can not co-exist. Same with a hello(String) and hello(i32).

Because of this limitation I had to rename many of the modified functions to include their arity (count of arguments).

So now there are many functions marked as deprecated, that call to functions that have their arity in their name, and it is all a big mess.

With v2, I want to fix this mess. In v2 I will both, remove all the functions marked as deprecated in v1.2, BUT I will also rename all the other functions to remove the arity.

This issue is basically just a public announcement that Hisho v2 will come soon and that it will NOT be API compatible in any way.