front-end developers/bzrlib non-plugin users - heads up, bzrlib.initialize changes in 2.2

[Michael Gliwinski]

On Monday 21 Jun 2010 05:57:12 Robert Collins wrote:
> bzrlib.initialize is a fairly new helper function used to get bzrlib
> ready to use. It is being changed in an incompatible fashion in 2.2
> (the change is playing in PQM now, and is in NEWS).
...
> One advantage of the change we have made is that it can be detected at
> runtime. Here is how you might handle 2.1 and 2.2 in the same code:
> state = bzrlib.initialise()
> if state:
>     state.__enter__()
> try:
>     # do stuff
> finally:
>     if state:
>         state.__exit__(None, None, None)
> 

Great news, that will definitely be useful.  However AFAICS, there is no 
`bzrlib.initialise` in < 2.2 (looks like it was added in 2.2.0b1).  Or is it 
going to be backported to 2.1?


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