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Re: API/Interface design questions

From: <kfogel_at_collab.net>
Date: 2004-03-11 22:27:10 CET

John Peacock <jpeacock@rowman.com> writes:
> So to merge what you and Karl are saying, the double underscore
> functions are only shared amongst the other files that make up a given
> library. They cannot be used by functions in other libraries.

That's correct (except for the exceptions Greg Hudson pointed out, but
those are a trend we shouldn't encourage IMHO :-) ).

> So it looks like anything in libsvn_subr (which is a provider for
> several other libraries) has to be part of the public API, even the
> really low level stuff which just happens to be used by several other
> libraries. Hmmm, not what I wanted to hear. ;~(

We could have this other level of semi-publicness, but I'm not sure we
want to go there just for this one problem.

-K

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