On Sat, 10 Mar 2007, Peter Samuelson wrote:
>
> [Hyrum K. Wright]
> > A number of API changes would be frozen for the intermediate 1.5
> > release, and those APIs may need to be rev'd to support merge
> > tracking changes. I don't see this as a major drawback, though.
>
> Is it practical to look for APIs revved in trunk and again in branches/
> merge-tracking, and merge those bits to trunk _before_ branching 1.5.x?
> I'm not saying the merge-tracking branch is _done_ revving APIs, but
> this may reduce the 1.6 API churn considerably.
>
> I understand it may not be possible in all cases, due to new data
> structures that are only meaningful with merge tracking.
We've done more data structure and API addition than actual rev'ing of
APIs. What rev'ing has been done is already on trunk, for the most
part, as it wasn't necessarily specific to Merge Tracking.
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