On Wed, Sep 03, 2008 at 09:43:22AM +0800, Dongsheng Song wrote: > Some folks stick to 1.4, would not upgrade shortly. > > If use 1.5 client, their work copy will automatic upgrade to 1.5, > and can't use 1.4 client anymore.
That is correct. The 1.5 client will auto-upgrade working copies to the newer format when run on a 1.4 working copy. The obvious solution is to use a 1.5 client everywhere. However, I know that this is easier said than done, because some folks use 3rd party clients whose maintainers are slow at updating to 1.5. Also, your site may have upgrading policies which restrict updating Subversion at this point in time. What are your specific reasons for not upgrading? My opinion on continued maintenance of a 1.4 port: Because there likely won't be many more 1.4.x releases, the 1.4 port would not have to be touched a lot of times, if at all. That should not be a big problem. Note that due to an issue with libtool, a port may not be able to compile the 1.5 svn client against 1.5 shared libs while 1.4 shared libs are installed on the system, and vice-versa. Any constructive comments on how to solve this problem are *very* much welcome, please see: http://subversion.tigris.org/servlets/ReadMsg?listName=dev&msgNo=133311 Also, I don't know if anyone wants to put in the extra effort of maintaining a 1.4 port (AFAIK no one has volunteered to do this yet). What about yourself? Thanks, Stefan
