RE: Looking for help writing meta data with swig bindings

> Functions with double underscores (svn_wc*__*entries_write) are not
public
> API functions, and therefore are not exposed through our language
bindings
> interfaces.

Yeah.. that's what I figured.
 
> > Does anyone have a ready example of reading/modifying/writing the
> > entries data directly using the swig bindings?
>
> This is strongly discouraged. But inevitably folks will find a need
for
> directly editing the .entries files. Fortunately, the 1.4 entries
format
> is super-simple to parse and write -- if you can read and understand
> libsvn_wc/entries.c:write_entry() and read_entry(), you're golden.

Yep, running into a couple of cases where the client api's just aren't
robust enough in our crazy working copies. I was trying to avoid
writing a parser (didn't want to get bit by another format switch) but I
suppose it wouldn't be the end of the world.

Thanks for the comments.

Eric

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscribe@subversion.tigris.org
For additional commands, e-mail: dev-help@subversion.tigris.org
Received on Thu Aug 16 18:42:24 2007