On 06/10/2011 07:39 AM, Daniel Shahaf wrote: > Julian Foad wrote on Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 11:17:11 +0100: >> The consensus seemed to be [1] that we can add/remove/change private >> APIs during the 1.7.x series, > > Indeed that's the consensus I have sensed. I am not sure if we include > the svn* clients in this "upgrade en bloc" group, but Philip's recent > work on "1.6 client, 1.7 libraries" does highlight one reason for > wanting to minimize the use of private APIs in the svn* tools.
I would be in favor of a policy that explicitly disallows our binaries from using private libraries. I believe it would serve to force us to think a bit more globally in terms of what would be useful to expose for the benefit of other clients. -- C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Distributed Development On Demand
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