Re: API compatiblility wrapper function dilemma

John Peacock wrote:
> This is the old signature for one of the functions that needs to change
> for the property keyword feature:
>
> svn_error_t *
> svn_subst_build_keywords (svn_subst_keywords_t *kw,
[...]
>
> and this is the new signature:
>
> svn_error_t *
> svn_subst_build_keywords2 (svn_subst_keywords_t *kw,
[...]
>
> Does anyone see a way that I can get back to the props hash with only the url to go on?

No, but surely that's the whole point: the new version supports property-based keywords, but the old one doesn't. You can think of (and implement) the old function as passing NULL for the "props" argument.

> p.s. this is another function which probably should have never been exposed
> in the public API

If that's the case, perhaps you could investigate replacing it with something non-public, and deprecating the public interface.

- Julian

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Received on Thu Mar 11 14:08:59 2004