Greg Stein wrote: > We have Ev2 somewhere on the future horizon. [...] > I'd like to go ahead and deprecate the > appropriate interfaces in svn_wc. [...] > > I'd like to do the deprecation now, rather than later. There isn't any > particular technical reason, but Julian phrased it best: engineering > at a social level. Smoke out anybody that might be using these APIs, > determine their actual needs, and move them to potentially-new > svn_client APIs.
In particular, doing it this way signals our library users to get in touch about what they need from such APIs *before* we actually change the code. Thus they get a chance to avoid hitting the performance regression and/or other limitations that we're quite likely to see when we eventually do reimplement the compatibility APIs in terms of the new ones. > There are four svn_wc APIs that consume delta editors (diff, status, > switch, update). Each of these would be deprecated and grow a > corresponding new private API, and the singular caller in > libsvn_client would switch. > > Any objections to this deprecation for the 1.8 release? Sounds good to me. - Julian
