Hiya Mike ,

On 17/06/14 22:35, Mike Duigou wrote:
With the upgrade of the hg.openjdk.java.net servers very old mercurial clients 
can no longer be used (0.9.5) and there have been persistent reports of more 
frequent connection failures. The older your mercurial client the more likely 
the failures are.

                 jdk:   hg clone http://hg.openjdk.java.net/jdk9/dev/jdk jdk
                 jdk:   requesting all changes
                 jdk:   adding changesets
                 jdk:   adding manifests
                 jdk:   transaction abort!
                 jdk:   rollback completed
                 jdk:   abort: stream ended unexpectedly (got 8372 bytes, 
expected 10932)

I would like to add a version check to get_source.sh which will require 
mercurial 1.5 or later and warn for clients older than 1.9.

Seem reasonable?

Mike

It [your suggestion] sounds eminently sensible.

Best rgds ,

--
Dave Pointon FIAP MBCS

Now I saw, tho' too late, the folly of beginning a work before we count the 
cost and before we we judge rightly of our strength to go thro' with it - 
Robinson Crusoe

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