Stream: git-wasmtime

Topic: wasmtime / PR #7994 Make `component::Linker` semver-aware


view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Feb 24 2024 at 00:08):

alexcrichton requested pchickey for a review on PR #7994.

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Feb 24 2024 at 00:08):

alexcrichton opened PR #7994 from alexcrichton:linker-semver-awawre to bytecodealliance:main:

This commit is an implementation of #7860 for Wasmtime where wasmtime::component::Linker is now "semver aware". This means that it assumes that hosts are always managing WIT interfaces in a semver-aare fashion meaning that semver-compatible upgrade exclusively adds functionality. This neatly fits into the idea of subtyping at the instance-level where if a binary built against 0.2.0 only requests a subset of functionality from a runtime that provides 0.2.1, that should work just fine.

Specifically what this change does is:

This semantically means that if a components imports WASI 0.2.0 then a runtime which only provides WASI 0.2.1 will be able to instantiate the component. Furthermore if a component imports WASI 0.2.1 but only imports the subset of WASI that was available in 0.2.0 then it will be instantiable in a runtime that only supports 0.2.0.

This implementation is intended to be a crucial part of the evolution to WASI to make it more seamless to upgrade WASI from both a host and guest perspective. This no longer requires everyone to upgrade to the same version all at the same time but instead decouples the upgrade schedules.

Closes #7860

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view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Feb 24 2024 at 00:08):

alexcrichton requested wasmtime-core-reviewers for a review on PR #7994.

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alexcrichton requested wasmtime-default-reviewers for a review on PR #7994.

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view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Feb 27 2024 at 19:20):

pchickey submitted PR review:

Thanks, this is very nicely commented code

view this post on Zulip Wasmtime GitHub notifications bot (Feb 27 2024 at 20:08):

alexcrichton merged PR #7994.


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