Re: Deferring the removal of temp APIs

On 06/10/2011 07:39 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Julian Foad wrote on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:17:11 +0100:
>> The consensus seemed to be [1] that we can add/remove/change private
>> APIs during the 1.7.x series,
>
> Indeed that's the consensus I have sensed. I am not sure if we include
> the svn* clients in this "upgrade en bloc" group, but Philip's recent
> work on "1.6 client, 1.7 libraries" does highlight one reason for
> wanting to minimize the use of private APIs in the svn* tools.

I would be in favor of a policy that explicitly disallows our binaries from
using private libraries. I believe it would serve to force us to think a
bit more globally in terms of what would be useful to expose for the benefit
of other clients.

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