On Wed, 2011-04-13 at 11:33 +0200, Branko Čibej wrote: > On 12.04.2011 18:50, Julian Foad wrote: > > On Mon, 2011-04-11 at 11:08 -0400, C. Michael Pilato wrote: > >> On 04/07/2011 08:49 PM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > >>> C. Michael Pilato wrote on Thu, Apr 07, 2011 at 11:19:48 -0400: > >>>> "Remove temp APIs": I would put this at "nice to have". These APIs are > >>>> private, so what's the penalty if they wind up in the release? > >>> We'd have to support them privately for the rest of the 1.7.x line, due > >>> to private ABI compatibility? > >>> > >>> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.subversion.devel/125849 > >> Ah, okay. I didn't realize that we allowed mix-and-match of > >> patch-level-differing-only versions. > > Erm... AFAIK, we don't support a mis-matched set of libraries (e.g. > > libsvn_client 1.7.0 + libsvn_wc 1.7.1 + ...), so it's fine to have > > internal APIs that are called from a different Subversion library, and > > we won't need to preserve those through 1.7.x. > > Then you'd better change the version checking code in the libraries.
Please correct my understanding or ... wait a sec, this is already doc'd in 'Hacking', so I'll go take a look and correct myself. - Julian
