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.
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viq

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