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Re: svn commit: r1129980 - /subversion/trunk/notes/knobs

From: Daniel Shahaf <d.s_at_daniel.shahaf.name>
Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2011 12:22:24 +0300

Julian Foad wrote on Thu, Jun 02, 2011 at 09:37:05 +0100:
> On Wed, 2011-06-01 at 23:42 +0200, Stefan Fuhrmann wrote:
> > On 01.06.2011 16:28, Daniel Shahaf wrote:
> > > Greg Stein wrote on Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 10:22:51 -0400:
> > >> On Jun 1, 2011 10:09 AM, "Stefan Sperling"<stsp_at_elego.de> wrote:
> > >>> On Wed, Jun 01, 2011 at 09:57:24AM -0400, Greg Stein wrote:
> > >>>> I had a define in workqueue.c that somebody recently prefixed with SVN_.
> > >>> That was me.
> > >>>
> > >>>> I never intended it to be part of *any* API. just a little helper for us
> > >> devs.
> > >>>> Yet now it shows up in knobs, and is an "official API"?!?
> > >>>>
> > >>>> Seems we may want to reconsider how stuff magically becomes a "knob".
> > >>> I don't really see the point of documenting this define in notes/knobs
> > >>> either. Should I move this back to a file-private define that isn't
> > >>> documented in knobs?
> > >> No need to rename it (either name would be valid in that file), but yanking
> > >> it from knobs makes sense to me.
> > >>
> > > knobs can list both public and developer-only macros... if we want it to
> > > list just public macros let's rm the file and add a section to the
> > > doxygen docs.
> > >
> > I copied the "SVN_ prefix makes it public" statement from
> > Daniel's original knobs file.
> >
> > IMHO, however, the intention of that file is to serve as a
> > central point of reference to svn devs. I suggest that we
> > simply remove said statement and replace it with a "this
> > is SVN-dev-private information" disclaimer.
> >
> > An enthusiastic user may still take the information in that
> > file to find out "what if" but I consider it a tool - not a commitment.
>
> +1.
>

+1. (notes/knobs is devs-private; 'configure --help=short' is not.)

> - Julian
>
>
Received on 2011-06-02 11:23:16 CEST

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