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Re: Branching 1.6.x this week (dirent_uri)

From: Julian Foad <julianfoad_at_btopenworld.com>
Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:43:20 +0000

On Sat, 2008-11-15 at 22:41 +0100, Lieven Govaerts wrote:
> Bert Huijben wrote:
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Lieven Govaerts [mailto:svnlgo{a}mobsol.be]
> >> Sent: maandag 10 november 2008 20:32
> >> To: dev_at_subversion.tigris.org
> >> Subject: Re: Branching 1.6.x this week
> >>
> >>
> >> So, I haven't had time to finish the dirent_uri stuff which I started
> >> to
> >> add during the month October. The problem is that the new interface
> >> isn't finished, and AFAIC shouldn't be exposed yet.
> >>
> >> I don't have time to make this change in the coming days or weeks, so
> >> I'd like to ask if someone can move the file dirent_uri.h out of the
> >> public area (except for svn_dirent_is_root). That should do it
> >> normally.
> >> This gives me some time to finish it up before 1.7.
> >
> > Hi Lieven,
> >
> > What are the open issues on this? Is it possible for somebody else to
> > resolve the few loose ends there are?
> >
>
> Well, since the svn_[dirent|uri] stuff is a whole new API, now might be
> a good moment to make sure that API is better than the original. So,
> things like passing a pool parameter, return svn_error_t on all
> functions etc.
>
> Besides that, the API is not complete yet. For some functions we have
> the svn_uri variant but not svn_dirent or visa versa.
> Then there is the is_absolute function, which thinks "E:foo" is an
> absolute path.
>
> > The code is in use in quite some places (the old public api uses the new
> > functions), but there are other places that use the old api that indirectly
> > calls svn_dirent*.
>
> I thought only svn_dirent_is_root is used in other places than path.c.
>
> >
> > When I look through it, it seems most dirent and url public api's are
> > completed, but are not used everywhere they should. Doing a massive rename
> > to make the api internal just to make it public in 1.7 doesn't feel ok.
> >
>
> I'm more afraid that we'd introduce an API that isn't finished yet,
> which we have to rev in 1.7. My plan was to deprecate svn_path* at the
> same time as we introduce svn_[dirent|uri].
>
> Lieven

Looks like this should be a TODO-1.6 item. Adding it...

- Julian

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