[Python-Dev] Attention Bazaar mirror users

[Steve Holden]

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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