Re: Deferring the removal of temp APIs

Julian Foad wrote on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:17:11 +0100:
> The consensus seemed to be [1] that we can add/remove/change private
> APIs during the 1.7.x series,

Indeed that's the consensus I have sensed. I am not sure if we include
the svn* clients in this "upgrade en bloc" group, but Philip's recent
work on "1.6 client, 1.7 libraries" does highlight one reason for
wanting to minimize the use of private APIs in the svn* tools.

(as opposed to using libsvn_foo__ API's in libsvn_bar)

> because the set of libraries should always
> be upgraded/downgraded as a set, not individually.
>
> Therefore I intend to mark the item as "Deferred" and coloured green in
> <http://subversion.apache.org/roadmap.html>.
>
> - Julian
>
>
> [1] Round about this message in the "1.7 Roadmap Items Evaluation"
> thread: <http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-04/0193.shtml>.
>
>
Received on 2011-06-10 13:39:58 CEST