On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 15:55, Daniel Shahaf <danielsh_at_elego.de> wrote:
> Greg Stein wrote on Mon, Feb 06, 2012 at 15:49:10 -0500:
>> On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 15:44, C. Michael Pilato <cmpilato_at_collab.net> wrote:
>> > On 02/06/2012 03:41 PM, Greg Stein wrote:
>> >> That is certainly an easier approach. "You use the old interface?
>> >> Fine. You won't get base checksum verification cuz we'll always pass
>> >> NULL." ... that seems like a fine position to take.
>> >
>> > This might be a fine position to take for some third-party consumer of the
>> > APIs, but I hope you aren't advocating that we toss out such a core data
>> > integrity check within Subversion itself. Are you?
>>
>> Theoretically, we'll be converted over to Ev2 and the compatibility
>> shim will not be used in our product. Only third-parties who choose to
>> stick to the old Ev1 (delta editor) interfaces will lose the integrity
>> check.
>>
>
> And Subversion 1.7 clients.
Are you talking about 'svn', or something like TortoiseSVN? The former
will use Ev2, so the shim won't be used. The latter will not get the
additional integrity check if it continues to use the Ev1 interfaces.
Cheers,
-g
Received on 2012-02-06 23:07:26 CET