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Re: trunk r115926: In preparation for the move to git, sanitize out some


From: Eric S. Raymond
Subject: Re: trunk r115926: In preparation for the move to git, sanitize out some Bazaar-specific names.
Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 08:13:38 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

Juanma Barranquero <address@hidden>:
> > I don't see any win at all in this reversion. And because doing it would
> > reintroduce a layering violation, I'm going to need a lot of convincing.
> 
> Why should I have to convince you that you shouldn't remove published
> APIs? I don't want to turn this into a silly commit battle, but if you
> don't fix it in a compatible way, I will. I'm only asking that your
> changes for the future (need I to remind you that we're still using
> Bazaar?) do not break anything that does not *need* to be broken.

Wouldn't defining emacs-bzr-get-version as an obsolete function alias
for emacs-repository-get-version solve the problem in a way 
satisfactory to both of us?

It wouldn't reintroduce a layering bug into loadup.el, and it would give you
your compatible API. 
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>



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