Re: get version of repository

Glenn A. Thompson wrote:

> Hey,
>
>> Both the subversion version and the BDB version should be possible
>> to read out somehow. It would also help if something goes wrong
>> to 'debug' the reason. The more information you can get the better.
>>
>>
>>
> Beep! Ding! Buzz!
>
> IMHO, Which version of BDB is none of the client's business. How a
> server or (FS) chooses to implement a contract is its business.
> I'm OK with a "server version request" that passes a detail string
> back for display. But not if this information gets used
> programmatically.
> What if the FS is SQL based, file system based, implements archiving,
> etc.

My thought exactly, and that's what I meant when I said it's the FS's
business. So: the current FS implementation checks that it's running
under the same BDB version as it was compiled against, and if it's not,
it returns an error message that contains both BDB versions. That should
be quite enough.

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Brane Čibej   <brane_at_xbc.nu>   http://www.xbc.nu/brane/
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