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API
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hg-review takes Mercurial's approach to API stability:

* The command line interface is fairly stable and will not break often.
* File formats will not change often.
* The internal implementation may change frequently -- there are no guarantees
  of stability.

Providing a stable CLI means that (possibly non-GPL) programs can interact with
hg-review easily without fear of constant breaking.

Stable file formats mean that older versions of hg-review will be able to work
with review data from newer versions (albeit with reduced functionality).

*Not* providing a stable internal implementation allows hg-review's code to be
kept clean and elegant. It means that Python programs will needs to use
subprocesses to avoid breaking, but this is a tradeoff that the author feels is
worth making.

Data Repository
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File Formats
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Python API
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author	Steve Losh <steve@stevelosh.com>
date	Mon, 12 Jul 2010 23:28:47 -0400
parents	d193a88bd231
children	959fb4d581f6