On 06/17/2010 09:47 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> Julian Foad wrote on Thu, 17 Jun 2010 at 14:53 +0100:
>> On Wed, 2010-06-16, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
>>> If we decide that we need to rev this API, though, then let's do the sane
>>
>> (Did you mean "rev this API" or merely "change it in any way"?)
>>
>>> thing and teach the function to return *all* the known APR file types so we
>>> don't have to revisit this API again later. We can backport a private
>>> implementation of the function for the purposes of fixing the bug in 1.6.x.
>>
>> Yes, we might as well make svn_io_dir_walk() return all possible kinds
>> of node, now that we're changing it at all.
>>
>
> Or we might say: "This returns APR_REG, APR_DIR, and may return more types
> in the future; don't assume this is an exhaustive list".
>
>> Oh, and the doc string needs updating: it explicitly says "files and
>> directories".
>>
>
> Symlinks are files? In a way? :-)
>
> (Yes, couldn't hurt to be explicit.)
I'm revving svn_io_dir_walk() now, and building into the new docstring the
possibility that we'll deliver additional filetypes through the interface in
the future.
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C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net>
CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
Received on 2010-07-23 19:14:31 CEST