[Python-Dev] Attention Bazaar mirror users (original) (raw)

Paul Moore p.f.moore at gmail.com
Sun Feb 22 00:06:19 CET 2009

2009/2/21 Barry Warsaw <barry at python.org>:

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On Feb 21, 2009, at 4:11 PM, Paul Moore wrote:

PS Just for my own information, am I correct in thinking that it is only Bazaar in the (D)VCS world that has this problem, to any real extent? I know old Mercurial clients can interact with newer servers (ie, the wire protocol hasn't changed), I'm fairly sure that older Subversion clients can talk to newer servers (at least, I've never cared what client version I'm running). I've not heard of this type of discussion around Git (but my experience is limited). But Bazaar seems very prone to this "upgrade the server and the clients need to be upgraded too" cycle. That's not what we're talking about. This is a case of older clients not understanding a newer repository format.

Sorry, I'm confused. Isn't that what I said? Clients (who still use the - older - version they have at the moment) needing to upgrade to be able to interact with the public repository (server) if that repository is upgraded to a newer version? When you say "repository" and I say "server", are we not discussing the same thing (the Bazaar branches hosted at code.python.org)?

Paul.

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