On Wed, 2010-12-01, Blair Zajac wrote:
> On 12/1/10 4:38 PM, stefan2_at_apache.org wrote:
> > Author: stefan2
> > Date: Thu Dec 2 00:38:17 2010
> > New Revision: 1041230
> >
> > URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1041230&view=rev
> > Log:
> > Fix the svn_checksum_to_cstring() docstring to actually say what
> > was intended. Also, make clear that the behavior is new for 1.7 and
> > trying to use it in 1.6 will cause segfaults.
> >
> > * subversion/include/svn_checksum.h
> > (svn_checksum_to_cstring): fix docstring
>
> What happens if somebody makes a svn tool that is compiled and built against the
> new 1.7 behavior and then it is backported to 1.6, it may core dump.
Any back-port effort of this kind needs to take account of all API
changes, not just newly created APIs. If it doesn't, then yes it may
crash. I believe that is an expected result of our compatibility rules,
and not without precedent, although I can't quickly lay my hands on a
good example.
> Should we add a svn_checksum_to_cstring2() instead with the new behavior or
> backport this change to 1.6? But even then we'll have 1.6 versions with
> different behavior. It seems making a new svn_checksum_to_cstring2() is better.
We should not port this change to 1.6.x. I don't believe we need to rev
the API for this reason; however, I haven't reviewed the change and so I
don't know if there are other reasons.
- Julian
Received on 2010-12-02 12:10:54 CET