On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 02:21:04PM +0200, Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 01:14:15PM +0200, viq wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 02, 2008 at 11:23:31AM +0100, Stuart Henderson wrote:
> > > On 2008/09/02 17:57, Dongsheng Song wrote:
> > > > Could you support both 1.4 & 1.5, like jdk ?
> > > 
> > > there is a very good reason for doing this with jdk. reading the
> > > release notes for Subversion, it seems this is not necessary here:-
> > > 
> > > | "Older clients and servers interoperate transparently with 1.5 servers
> > > | and clients. However, some of the new 1.5 features (e.g., merge
> > > | tracking) may not be available unless both client and server are the
> > > | latest version . There are also cases (e.g., sparse checkouts) where a
> > > | new feature will work but will run less efficiently if the client is new
> > > | and the server old.
> > > |
> > > | There is no need to dump and reload your repositories. Subversion 1.5
> > > | can read repositories created by earlier versions. To upgrade an
> > > | existing installation, just install the newest libraries and binaries on
> > > | top of the older ones.
> > > |
> > > | Subversion 1.5 maintains API/ABI compatibility with earlier releases, by
> > > | only adding new functions, never removing old ones. A program written to
> > > | the 1.0, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, or 1.4 API can both compile and run using 1.5
> > > | libraries. However, a program written for 1.5 cannot necessarily compile
> > > | or run against older libraries."
> > > 
> > > what's the reason you want to keep 1.4?
> > 
> > I've seen some 1.4 clients (or eclipse plugins) not being able to talk to 
> > 1.5
> > server.
> 
> That surprises me. Can you point to mailing list threads or
> entries in the issue tracker upstream?
> 
> Stefan

Hm, I didn't research it that deep yet, and not sure I will be able to
in the nearest future.
-- 
viq

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