Re: .svn vs _svn on VS.NET (ASP.NET)

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 11:00:46PM +0200, Adal Chiriliuc wrote:
> Why not add right now a function to get the working dir folder name and
> deprecate the SVN_WC_ADM_DIR_NAME define so that everybody can start using
> it now so that if in the future this is changed this will not be a problem.

Because there's no way to give the old clients backward compatability.
If they continue to use the constant they won't interoperate with
clients using the new function if the working copy admin dir is named
something different then the constant.

We can deprecate interfaces and create new ones with improvements. But
the old ones have to continue to work until the next major release.

> Maybe all defines should be investigated for future possible changes.

Constants can change. They just change change from a constant to
something non-constant. Though this particular constant is more
difficult because it's used not just in our interface but is represented
on disk between runs of the clients.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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