Matthijs Kooijman wrote on Wed, Feb 08, 2012 at 13:55:33 +0100:
> Hey Stefan,
>
> > For example, the addition of new functions prevents people from rolling
> > back to an earlier 1.7 patch release without breaking scripts which were
> > modified to use the new functions after updating to 1.7.3. That would
> > be a violation of our release compatibility guidelines.
> Hmm, that's a pity, since the addition of this new unlock_prompt_func
> function would really be the one commit I'd like to see backported (I
> only did the other patches for consistency and because I now better
> understand swig than a year ago when I did the perl patch).
>
> Also, if I understand your policy correctly, backporting the below
> patches isn't exactly useful either, since any script that will be
> modified to use the svn_auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers will
> break as well when downgrading to 1.7.2 (since there this function
> (binding) exists, but will always error out). I guess the distinction
> between "add a new function" and "fix an unusable function" is a bit
> vague here.
>
> Or does the policy concern the C API? Since all of the patches
> (including the unlock_prompt_func one) only touch the bindings, not the
> actual C api.
>
If we backport your unlock_prompt_func patches to 1.7.3, someone
downgrading the bindings from 1.7.3 to 1.7.2 will get runtime linker
errors, correct? If so we cannot backport it.
As opposed to the currently-nominated changes, where one can catch the
error (IIRC it's a non-fatal one) and fall back to other auth providers.
> Gr.
>
> Matthijs
>
> > Changes which don't add new API symbols can be backported.
> > Currently, the following changes are nominated for backport to 1.7:
> >
> > * r1241530, r1241713, r1241726
> > Fix the python bindings for svn_auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers.
> > Justification:
> > The bindings should see passwords cached in the platform-specific providers.
> > Already fixed for the Perl bindings. Ruby fix is nominated separately.
> > Notes:
> > r1241713 and r1241726 tweak the unit test.
> > Votes:
> > +1: danielsh
> >
> > * r1241553
> > Fix the ruby bindings for svn_auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers.
> > Justification:
> > The bindings should see passwords cached in the platform-specific providers.
> > Already fixed for the Perl bindings. Python fix is nominated separately.
> > Votes:
> > +1: stsp
> >
> >
Received on 2012-02-08 14:46:26 CET