On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 11:33 +0200, Branko Čibej wrote:
> On 12.04.2011 18:50, Julian Foad wrote:
> > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 11:08 -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote:
> >> On 04/07/2011 08:49 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> >>> C. Michael Pilato wrote on Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 11:19:48 -0400:
> >>>> "Remove temp APIs": I would put this at "nice to have". These APIs are
> >>>> private, so what's the penalty if they wind up in the release?
> >>> We'd have to support them privately for the rest of the 1.7.x line, due
> >>> to private ABI compatibility?
> >>>
> >>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel/125849
> >> Ah, okay. I didn't realize that we allowed mix-and-match of
> >> patch-level-differing-only versions.
> > Erm... AFAIK, we don't support a mis-matched set of libraries (e.g.
> > libsvn_client 1.7.0 + libsvn_wc 1.7.1 + ...), so it's fine to have
> > internal APIs that are called from a different Subversion library, and
> > we won't need to preserve those through 1.7.x.
>
> Then you'd better change the version checking code in the libraries.
Please correct my understanding or ... wait a sec, this is already doc'd
in 'Hacking', so I'll go take a look and correct myself.
- Julian
Received on 2011-04-13 11:38:19 CEST