Re: Upcoming Flag Day

On Tue, Aug 06, 2002 at 04:29:32PM -0500, cmpilato@collab.net wrote:
>...
> Subversion is about to suffer several changes that will cause
> incompatibility between clients and servers, servers and filesystems,
> clients and working copies, Hatfields and McCoys, etc.
>
> - KBP's ".svn-base" property file suffix patch (Issue #618).
> - DAV namespace property reorganization (Issue #840).

The client should recognize both, and the server should continue to use the
old namespaces for a while. At some future point, the server will begin to
use the new namespaces. "Really old" clients will need to be upgraded.

>...
> - Ooooooooh Greeeeeeeeeg (Stein): How can we define a protocol
> version for our DAVish communications? Not so much our use of DAV
> itself, but all those custom reports and responses and such? We

The names and namespaces and things give us plenty of "versioning"
capability, along with negotiation and whatnot.

> just need to detect incompatibility, not correct for it at
> runtime, wethinks. Interestingly enough, this particular instance
> of a version number isn't so important for *this* flag day, since
> nobody's servers *or* clients are going to work until fully
> upgraded. :-)

Huh? That should never happen. We should *never* change the client or server
so radically that people are forced to upgrade. We want to "accepth both"
for a period of time, *then* remove the old.

What changes are you thinking of? Have we done this lately? Or planning to
at any point?

Cheers,
-g

p.s. note that we *could* code the client to understand the old namespaces
and issue a warning "your server needs to be upgraded"

-- 
Greg Stein, http://www.lyra.org/
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