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Re: Changing svn_delta_editor_t

From: Garrett Rooney <rooneg_at_electricjellyfish.net>
Date: 2006-04-01 03:22:15 CEST

On 3/31/06, Branko Èibej <brane@xbc.nu> wrote:
> Garrett Rooney wrote:
> > So what do people thing? Can we assume that people have been smart
> > and used the constructor?
> "Can we assume that people have been smart ..."
>
> Read that over again, and see if the answer isn't obvious ... :(

Yeah, I know, I know...

> > Or are we stuck reving one of our most
> > central data structures?
> >
> We do have an alternative. It's called svn-2.0.
>
> The question is, can we afford to wait for atomic renames for another
> /N/ months? Or years? And do you want to throw most of the branch work
> away? (That's assuming that svn-2.0 has a new fs schema that isn't quite
> as brain-dead as the current one.)
>
> I sort of suspect that the answer to that one is obvious, too ...

Yep, looks like we're reving the editor interface!

I'll put together a better proposal on how the new interface would
work once I've had some time to play with some ideas. If we're gonna
change it, might as well see if we can incrementally improve some
stuff while we're messing with it.

-garrett
Received on Sat Apr 1 03:22:39 2006

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