> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Martin [mailto:philip.mar...@wandisco.com]
> Sent: maandag 4 april 2011 17:37
> To: dev@subversion.apache.org
> Subject: notification backward compatibilty of the testsuite
>
> I've been working on a revert implementation that fixes some correctness
> problems. A side effect of this change is that the notifications
> change. In 1.6 revert only notifies for the root of an added tree, my
> new code notifies for all the added nodes. This causes 3 of the
> regression tests to fail. The 1.6 behaviour seems a bit arbitrary to
> me, and reproducing it with my new code would be difficult.
>
> Do we need any sort of backward compatibility in the testsuite? Is it
> acceptable to simply change the regression tests to expect the new
> notifications? Something like this:
I don't think we promise notifications to stay the same over versions and as
an application developer I prefer a bit more notifications. There are
several other places where we already changed notifications a few times
(merge, tree conflicts, etc. etc.)
+1 from me on just adding the extra notifications.
(I would have a problem if we removed notification calls for specific paths;
but not if they were just filtered in svn's output)
Bert
