Jack Repenning <jrepenning@collab.net> writes:
> At 8:34 AM -0500 7/4/03, Ben Collins-Sussman wrote:
> >The "malformed
> >network data" is what ra_svn/svnserve always says when the protocols
> >don't match.
>
> So, just askin', but wouldn't
> Server version incompatible with this client version
>
> be just a teensy bit clearer?
>
> Bonus points, of course, for
> Server version (0.24.2) incompatible with this client version (0.19.3)
>
> And of course, I *do* mean "actually put the version into someplace
> recognizable by all product versions, say a header, so the client can
> verify and report this accurately, leaving random other cases of
> actual malformed network data to be reported in the old-fashioned way."
Sure, everybody wants this. But it opens a whole new can of worms.
Now every single ra_svn library needs to keep a list of server
versions it can speak to? And vice versa? This is why most protocols
exchange *features* rather than version numbers (cvs included).
In this particular case, I'm not even sure ghudson needs to implement
either of these things; the easiest thing he could do is version the
protocol itself, and exchange protocol versions. I suppose ghudson
can comment more on this...
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Received on Mon Jul 7 18:06:57 2003