Garrett Rooney wrote:
> Actually, I suppose I don't have any strong feelings about doing the
> development of the new impl on a branch, but I think it makes some
> sense just because I'd prefer not to have parts of it in any release
> until it's up and limping along and we have some confidence that it's
> going to work well, and since we don't really know how long the
> development is likely to take it seems safer to do that work on a
> branch out of the way. I think libsvn_ra_svn succeeded mainly because
> when it was presented for public consumption it was largely complete,
> so before this shows up in the trunk I'd hope it would be similarly far
> along. On the other hand, I think a filesystem impl is a considerably
> bigger job than an RA layer, so I think it would be better off to do
> the development in the repository in view of others who may be able to
> help than in a vacuum as you did with libsvn_ra_svn.
Perhaps it could be developed on the trunk, but the directory be "rm"-ed on
the 1.1 release branch, once it is created? And require an explicit
configure option to build it, until it is considered almost ready?
Max.
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Received on Tue Mar 30 15:54:21 2004