From f41b78caa3ee75309cdd8c7e83848ce69875c416 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruno Windels Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2021 16:39:12 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] clarify that a goal of sticking to this format is backwards compat. --- proposals/2674-event-relationships.md | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff --git a/proposals/2674-event-relationships.md b/proposals/2674-event-relationships.md index b2760c388..6e703e54f 100644 --- a/proposals/2674-event-relationships.md +++ b/proposals/2674-event-relationships.md @@ -171,6 +171,7 @@ versus ``` The reasons to go with `rel_type` is: + * this format is now in use in the wider matrix ecosystem without a prefix, in spite of the original MSC 1849 not being merged. This situation is not ideal but we still don't want to break compatibility with several clients. * we don't need the extra indirection to let multiple relations apply to a given pair of events, as that should be expressed as separate relation events. * if we want 'adverbs' to apply to 'verbs' in the subject-verb-object triples which