On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 6:15 PM, Daniel Shahaf <[email protected]> wrote:
> We bumped the SQLite requirement to the rather recent 3.6.18 because of > bugs/features we needed. > > On the other hand, the minimum Python is 2.4 and the minimum APR is 0.9. > They are old enough to go to grade school. Well, yes. And you nor the Subversion team should have to to code to such old standards simply to support out of date operating systems. The problem is that when someone pops up and says "I must have this current version on RHEL 4 because its use is mandated", or as happened to me a ways back "on SCO OpenServer 5", "Debian Etch", or other out of date operating systems, The idea that you can "just compile from the source tarball" is not borne out by my experience nor, in the case of RHEL 4, by actually testing it. Interestingly, I've just run some casual tests with the "serf" library and subversion-1.6.17, which gets us away from the neon incompatibilities. It's promisijng: do people really see that much performance benefit in the clients with serf instad of neon? And have people tested with the 1.0.0 release of serf?
