On 09/09/2009 05:05 PM, Martijn Faassen wrote: > Jens Vagelpohl wrote: >> >> On Sep 9, 2009, at 15:30 , Martijn Faassen wrote: >> >>> Ah, I perhaps misunderstood. I figured the resolving of relative >>> externals would be a problem with a Subversion 1.4.x client. >> >> There's two different issues being confused here. >> >> SVN 1.4 clients will work with SVN 1.5 repositories in general. However, >> that's not the real issue here. The issue is the new-style externals >> definitions that allow you to use "relative" paths. Those relative paths >> will not work for SVN 1.4 clients. > > Okay, no objection to upgrading the server to 1.5 now.
That has been done a good while ago already (I was probably ambiguous in my mail). > But requiring 1.5 as clients will need some more discussion. I take it > there are two main reasons to do so: > > * relative URLs in externals > > * better merge tracking For some interpretation of "better". -- Christian Theune · c...@gocept.com gocept gmbh & co. kg · forsterstraße 29 · 06112 halle (saale) · germany http://gocept.com · tel +49 345 1229889 0 · fax +49 345 1229889 1 Zope and Plone consulting and development _______________________________________________ Zope-Dev maillist - Zope-Dev@zope.org https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce https://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope )