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Re: [API] r18266

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: 2006-01-29 01:33:13 CET

Peter N. Lundblad wrote:
> Julian,
>
> In r18266, you added a new API svn_wc_revision_status with a pointer to
> struct svn_wc_revision_status_t, which will be filled by the function.
> This avoids lots of "out" parameters in the function, but it still makes
> it impossible to add new fields to the struct without revving both the
> struct and the function (which might be another reason for using a struct
> in the first place).
>
> I suggest making the function allocate the struct and adding to the struct
> doc a note that the size of this struct may increase in the future, so
> callers shouldn't create it themselves. (We can add constructors like
> we've done for other structs now or on demand later).
>
> We've made this mistake before leading to lots of API revision.

That sounds like a good idea. Anyone willing to do a patch for it? (It wasn't
really my patch, but since I worked on it and committed it I suppose I ought to
take more than average responsibility for it, so I'll try to take a look at
this some time if nobody else offers.)

- Julian

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