On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> wrote:
> On 28.11.2012 17:15, Philip Martin wrote:
> > Branko Čibej <brane_at_wandisco.com> writes:
> >
> >> On 28.11.2012 15:39, brane_at_apache.org wrote:
> >>> Author: brane
> >>> Date: Wed Nov 28 14:39:42 2012
> >>> New Revision: 1414728
> >>>
> >>> URL: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc?rev=1414728&view=rev
> >>> Log:
> >>> Getting sidetracked for a bit: create placeholder and update build for
> >>> a future high-level C++ API for Subversion, based on the same
> principles
> >>> as JavaHL.
> >> Lest anyone become too worried about this: I'm not going to let this
> >> project divert my attention from getting 1.8 out the door. I had this
> >> idea on the back burner for a long time, and just now found a bit of
> >> time when I had to clear my head; so I decided to at least get the build
> >> infrastructure in place.
> > How does this compare to Hyrum's "object model"?
> >
> > notes/object-model.txt
> > ^/subversion/branches/object-model
>
> I don't know yet. I'll be looking at that more closely when the time
> comes, but I'll also take notes from JavaHL. I feel it's important that
> we hide the details of the C API (for example, its dependency on APR)
> from this high-level interface.
The object model stuff is probably a bit dated, but some of the ideas
probably still hold. If there's anything I learned through that
experience, it was that we'll probably need to use something like pimpl for
any type of backward compatibility within the C++ bindings themselves. Ugh.
-Hyrum
Received on 2012-11-29 14:23:24 CET