Re: Why do we allowed mixed versions of libsvn_* ?

On Fri, 2004-12-03 at 16:05, Mark Benedetto King wrote:
> When/if enterprising entities implement their own fs backend
> or ra modules, they'll want some sort of API/ABI stability, so
> that they don't have to constantly roll new releases.

We don't claim to support that.

> I recognize that there aren't any examples of this yet, but
> we went through all the trouble of building the RA and FS
> loaders; we have to expect that someday there will be
> third-party modules.

We have RA and FS loaders so that Subversion binary packages can be
separated out into multiple components, so that the main package doesn't
have to depend on BDB and neon.

(That may not have been the original reason for the RA loader, but
that's the benefit we derive from them now.)

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Received on Fri Dec 3 23:15:42 2004