Tobias Ringström <tobias@ringstrom.mine.nu> writes:
> >Index: subversion/include/svn_subst.h
> >===================================================================
> >- --- subversion/include/svn_subst.h (revision 10373)
> >+++ subversion/include/svn_subst.h (working copy)
> >@@ -83,6 +83,7 @@
> > const svn_string_t *author;
> > const svn_string_t *url;
> > const svn_string_t *id;
> >+ const svn_string_t *header;
> > } svn_subst_keywords_t;
> >
> Incompatible changes to the API such as this one cannot be applied
> before the next major version (2.x). If you want this change to be
> acceptable for 1.x, you must create a new type, svn_subst_keywords2_t
> and also make new versions of the public functions using the type,
> e.g. you need to create svn_subst_build_keywords2 that takes
> svn_subst_keywords2_t arguments, etc. The old functions should then be
> marked as deprecated. I'm afraid that this will complicate the patch a
> lot. :-(
Why is adding a member to the end of a structure incompatible? Maybe
there are other incompatible things about the patch, but this
particular change seems compatible to me.
?
-Karl
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Received on Tue Jul 27 00:33:44 2004