Re: My plans for VC mode

["Eric S. Raymond" <esr@thyrsus.com>]

Ivan Shmakov <ivan@siamics.net>:
> 	At the very least, I hope that the calling conventions for the
> 	most basic interface functions my backend provides (including
> 	registered, state, working-revision, find-revision, checkin,
> 	print-log) are changed in a kind of a compatible way.  (For
> 	instance, I could easily make ‘state’ also accept a list of
> 	files instead of just a single one.  Or so I hope, anyway.)
> 
> 	Otherwise, I’d rather appreciate if the updated interface could
> 	use some entirely new function names where the semantics changes
> 	drastically, so that I can provide functions implementing both
> 	the old and the new interface.  (I do not think it’s necessary
> 	for the new VC to support the old interface in this case.)

These are completely reasonable requests, and I will attempt to
fulfill them.
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