[api breakage] alias merge regression.

[Robert Collins]

On Tue, 2006-02-28 at 09:12 -0500, Aaron Bentley wrote:
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> Robert Collins wrote:
> > The alias merge broke the 0.7 run_argv for plugin commands.
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> That only affects plugins that call commands.  The only one I'm aware of
> is bzrtools push, and that has already been updated.  So your bugfix has
> broken bzrtools push.
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> I thought the plan was to freeze API compatibility this month, not stay
> stuck with old patterns.  run_argv has few direct callers, and the only
> plugin caller I'm aware of is bzrtools.  So when I merged the signature
> change, I updated bzrtools.
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> IOW, this was not a regression, and your fix breaks bzrtools.

I thought that the plan was to be as careful as possible across the
board - still break if we really need to but not to do it if there is a
thunk we can do. As for when, I had understood that we planned to be
'definite' about this at the end of Feb - but also that we've been doing
since much earlier to practice the skills needed to deliver api
stability. Replying separately to the bzrtools-push-is-broken note.

Rob

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