Greg Stein wrote:
>On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:00:03AM -0500, mark benedetto king wrote:
>
>
>>...
>>You're right; there are hoardes of people waiting for 1.0 to adopt svn.
>>I'm one of them. The cost of an API change is probably proportional
>>to the number of users; let's try to injure only the early adopters,
>>rather than the masses.
>>
>>
>
>One of my underlying reasons for avoiding API changes right now is that
>you can view the set of available software as a sort of "ecosphere" of
>tools around SVN. If we change the API now, then it ripples throughout
>that entire ecosphere and tightly couples versions of each against each
>other. If we tweak the API, then suddently RapidSVN no longer works. The
>user will have to upgrade that. Oh, and their buddy's Windows box will
>need a new TortoiseSVN to deal with the new SVN. etc.
>
>
But that's true of anything that's compiled against a library, isn't it?
If I upgrade Subversion on my server, I probably have to upgrade my
clients. I'd then at least have to upgrade the library that Tortoise is
(dynamically?) linking against. I do agree that changing the API will
cause ripple effects, but I think a lot of people developing tools are
waiting for the magic 1.0 stabilisation line before themselves doing a
final push to work with Subversion.
Mike.
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