Thanks will the required changes be in alpha3?
Is it possible to do the sort without using the private API?
Barry
pysvn author
On 6 Nov 2014, at 19:55, Ben Reser wrote:
> On 11/6/14 5:10 AM, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
>> Out of curiosity, do the same issues occur with gcc on a modern box?
>> Ther'e's a lot to like about MacPorts, but I don't think it's the
>> primary build and testing platform for Subversion.
>
> Yes gcc is going to have the same issues because the declarations he needs
> have
> been removed from svn_sorts.h These declarations have been there since 1.0.
> Prior to 1.0 they had names in the APR namespace, since it was expected this
> functionality would be moved to APR. Before 1.0 we cleaned up that namespace
> problem and marked them private (by documentation and by using __ in the
> names). Of course since they were still in a public header they are
> effectively public APIs. Bert noticed that there were a lot of these private
> APIs added to the svn_sorts.h header since 1.8 on trunk and so he moved all of
> them into a private header that isn't installed. This meant he moved the ones
> that had been there since 1.0, thus breaking any 3rd party code that depended
> on them.
>
> Ideally we would have never exposed these. Ideally 3rd parties would have
> observed the private markers and not used them.
>
> I suggested that we resolve this by restoring the long standing private APIs
> that had been exposed. While not adding any new APIs. If nobody objects to
> that suggestion soon I'm going to just do it.
>
