[pacman-dev] (no subject)

Dan McGee dpmcgee at gmail.com
Fri Feb 25 10:06:52 EST 2011


On Friday, February 25, 2011, Allan McRae <allan at archlinux.org> wrote:
> On 26/02/11 00:29, Dave Reisner wrote:
>
>
> The ensuing patches revert Allan's breakage^Wchanges to the public API with
> regard to the introduction of pmpkghash_t. Since we haven't exposed any public
> facing API calls which can manipulate a pmpkghash_t   <snip>
>
>
> Yet...  There are several places in pacman where the exposing (e.g.) _alpm_pkghash_find() would be very useful so I think this is likely to be exposed in the future.

You can blame this on me, Allan. I suggested we do this because we
have caused headaches to people with the unnecessary rename. Exposing
it later via a _hash suffix might happen, but no need to expose it
until we know it is needed.

-Dan


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