On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 2:49 PM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 6, 2012 at 15:44, C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@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 I'll note that the base checksum check is superfluous, as the resulting contents check is still valid and being performed. -Hyrum -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com/
