> -----Original Message-----
> From: C. Michael Pilato [mailto:cmpil...@collab.net]
> Sent: donderdag 26 juli 2012 22:13
> To: Subversion Development
> Subject: Third-party provider funcs in our API: did we expose too much?
>
> Can anyone explain to me why the following symbols are exposed in the
> public
> Subversion API?
>
> svn_auth_get_platform_specific_provider
> svn_auth_get_windows_simple_provider
> svn_auth_get_windows_ssl_client_cert_pw_provider
> svn_auth_get_windows_ssl_server_trust_provider
> svn_auth_get_keychain_simple_provider
> svn_auth_get_keychain_ssl_client_cert_pw_provider
> svn_auth_get_gnome_keyring_simple_provider
> svn_auth_get_gnome_keyring_ssl_client_cert_pw_provider
> svn_auth_get_kwallet_simple_provider
> svn_auth_get_kwallet_ssl_client_cert_pw_provider
> svn_auth_get_gpg_agent_simple_provider
> svn_auth_gnome_keyring_version
> svn_auth_kwallet_version
>
> I mean, I recognize the value of what each of these functions provides, but
> it seems to me that svn_auth_get_platform_specific_client_providers()
> pretty
> much obsoletes all them.
You currently can't initialize a non cmdline behavior without these apis. (The
only api that calls them for you also Initializes your console for you)
That might be part of the reason.
> What's more, this latter single function actually honors the runtime
> configuration's "password-stores" option value (which dictates the
> availability and preferred specific ordering of third-party providers),
> while the aforementioned list of interfaces almost begs API consumers to
> fetch providers individually and plop them into the auth subsystem's
> providers list without regard to the user-configured availability and order.
That passwords-stores option is part of the cmdline api.
(All our libraries expose a version function, so that probably explains the
last two)
Bert
>
> Am I missing something? Is this just a holdover from the days when we
> discouraged the use of private-but-non-static functions?
>
> --
> C. Michael Pilato <cmpil...@collab.net>
> CollabNet <> www.collab.net <> Enterprise Cloud Development
