On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:07:57PM -0500, Greg Hudson wrote:
> I'd say, feel free to change the private FS vtable in any way you want.
> If we don't have a mechanical check which prevents mixing, then that's
> arguably a problem we should fix, but we've never publically guaranteed
> that you can mix versions of libraries within the svn package.
>
When/if enterprising entities implement their own fs backend
or ra modules, they'll want some sort of API/ABI stability, so
that they don't have to constantly roll new releases.
I recognize that there aren't any examples of this yet, but
we went through all the trouble of building the RA and FS
loaders; we have to expect that someday there will be
third-party modules.
--ben
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Received on Fri Dec 3 22:07:03 2004