Re: Mark/seek/reset problems in svn_subst_stream_translated()

I (Julian Foad) wrote:
> The "line filter" and "line transformer": I don't think these fit the
> stream abstraction at all well. Streams don't have "lines" as a primary
> concept. Without going into the details, I think it can't play nicely
> with plain reads and writes, and I doubt it's properly integrated with
> mark/seek.

(That could be construed as a very rude thing to say, but I just meant
that's something I think will be quite difficult to get right and it's
still a doubt in my mind because I haven't studied it yet.)

- Julian

> I think line filtering should be implemented as a wrapper
> stream instead.
>
> - Julian
Received on 2010-04-15 18:37:08 CEST