On Wed, Jun 5, 2013 at 8:01 PM, Ben Reser <b...@reser.org> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 12:50 AM, Greg Stein <gst...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Within serf, we're thinking about new models for connection and >> protocol handling. And bumping to 2.0 to make that happen. What is the >> effect upon libsvn_ra_serf and svn in general? >> >> My thinking is "no big deal". That upgrading to svn 1.9 (or 1.10 or >> whatever) would require installation of serf 2.0. All svn APIs would >> remain unchanged, per our own versioning guidelines (both source and >> binary APIs). > > Provided that we haven't exposed any API details of serf in our > interface that's not a problem. I believe the only dependency where > we might run into such details would be APR since we do require the > use of APR APIs in order to use our library.
I *do* want to switch serf over to pocore at some point (better networking and pool mem free/reuse), but its disparate memory pool system can still be managed using APR's pool cleanups. We shouldn't see any leakage out of the RA API. Cheers, -g
