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[Aaron Bentley <aaron@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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On 05/13/2010 11:41 AM, Francis J. Lacoste wrote:

> About the question of how to do big refactoring while maintaining backward 
> compatibility, we will have to maintain an implementation of the old API that 
> is implemented in terms of the new.

This sounds a lot like a view.  It sometimes seems like it would be
nicer if we exposed views rather than our internal API.

For example, lazr.restful cannot support IBranch.addLandingTarget's
parameters, so I had to create (I)Branch._createMergeProposal and expose
it over the API as createMergeProposal.  I think that sort of thing
would be clearer as a method on a view that just munged the parameters
and called the original method.

Aaron
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