X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.4 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_50,FREEMAIL_FROM,KAM_THEBAT X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 22:52:07 +0400 From: Andrey Repin Reply-To: Andrey Repin Message-ID: <531196777.20111117225207@mtu-net.ru> To: Jeremy Bopp , cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: Rolling back to 1.6.x Subversion In-Reply-To: <4EC53A81.3040307@bopp.net> References: <1872837516.20111117113945@mtu-net.ru> <4EC52A2C.1030905@bopp.net> <4EC53A81.3040307@bopp.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Greetings, Jeremy Bopp! > Thank you for confirming my memory regarding these format changes. > Still, while it makes sense for the project to make backward > incompatible changes at times, it still seems odd that the new clients > wouldn't support using the working copies from at least 1 minor version > back in order to ease interoperability between SVN client implementations. Unfortunatelly, changes in WC format for 1.7 was QUITE drastic... As said, you can find more info on http://subversion.apache.org/ This is the wrong mailing list to discuss them. > I could see that the new clients wouldn't *create* older version working > copies in order to encourage adoption of the changes, but it wouldn't > seem too hard on the face of it to keep around a compatibility layer > from the last minor version in order to *use* an older working copy. > It's the maintainers' decision how they build their project, of course. > I just find this aspect surprising. -- WBR, Andrey Repin (anrdaemon@freemail.ru) 17.11.2011, <22:50> Sorry for my terrible english... -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple