Re: [Issue 1015] Changed - Need to escape property values over DAV

cmpilato@collab.net writes:

> > I don't understand. If 0.20 clients and servers know how to recognize
> > and handle the new xml attribute, why can't you just finish the
> > rollout completely in 0.21?
>
> If I finish the rollout in 0.21, then 0.21 clients that put binary
> properties into 0.20 servers will not be able to get them out again.
> Checkouts will fail, chaos ensues. The solution is the three-step
> process I detailed, which disallows the addition of XML properties
> over ra-dav until the server is fully capable of transmitting them.
> And why don't I turn on the server transmission of binary properties
> now? Because then a 0.20 server sending bin-props to a 0.19 client
> will cause the client to store base64'd versions of the properties in
> the working copy instead of the real prop value.

Ahhhhhhh, all is clear, thanks. I see you need three distinct steps.

But why milestones {.20, .22, .24}, and not {.20, .21, .22}?

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Received on Wed Mar 19 21:45:33 2003