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

Steve Holden steve at holdenweb.com
Sun Feb 22 14:37:27 CET 2009

Michael Foord wrote:

Steve Holden wrote:

Steven Bethard wrote:

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Paul Moore <p.f.moore at gmail.com> 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 definitely had an SVN server tell me that I needed to upgrade my client to 1.5. Interestingly, I've had 1.4 servers tell me I shouldn't have upgraded my client to 1.5, which is a little tedious = particularly as the information comes in the form of a hard-to-decipher error message and a refusal to work. So much for backward compatibility. Hmm... I've been using 1.5 clients with 1.4 and earlier servers for quite a while now. My guess is that you deciphered the error message wrong! A working copy created by a 1.5 client can only be manipulated by a 1.5 client (I sometimes have several clients on windows boxen) but work fine with earlier servers in my experience. You are correct. In fact I got over the issue by using the 1.4 client from Cygwin.

regards Steve

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