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

"Martin v. Löwis" martin at v.loewis.de
Sun Feb 22 04:56:24 CET 2009

This has been true for a number of cases over the years: whether the "repostiory format", or the wire protocol, sometimes changes which materially improve the user's experience may require upgrading the client on the user's machine. In the case of SVN, upgrading to 1.5 gets vastly better merging support; in the case ob bzr, the win is performance when working against a large tree.

The question is whether upgrades on the server force upgrades on the clients. For subversion, this is not the case: Older clients continue to work correctly with 1.5 servers - they just can't use the merge functionality. IIUC, for bzr, this is different: if the repository format is upgraded, older clients will fail to do anything, not even a regular checkout.

AFAICS, no real user (one already using bzr to work with the Python tree) has objected.

Apparently not (assuming David Cournapeau does not actually use bzr)

Regards, Martin

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