On Tue, 2004-03-09 at 15:43, Greg Hudson wrote:
> * The dirty hack: Introduce an environment variable to change the .svn
> dir and document it as a barely-functional workaround which we reserve
> the right to desupport in the far future. Don't try to recognize both
> kinds of working copies, don't provide functions to help third-party
> apps recognize variant working copies, etc.. If we go this route, I
> actually like the idea of letting the environment variable specify any
> value (not just _svn), because it makes it less likely that people will
> write third-party heuristic code which tries to recognize variant
> working copies. I'm -0 on this option.
I'm +1 on this option.
I know it's 'dirty' in terms of messing up compatibility guarantees. On
the other hand, it provides an immediate short-term benefit to the vocal
minority, while doing the least amount of long-term damage to our APIs
and codebase. Someday it can just 'go away'.
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Received on Tue Mar 9 23:22:29 2004