Re: Expected post-1.0 release cycle?

On Dec 23, 2003, at 5:56 PM, Greg Hudson wrote:

> We do need to (eventually) think about how someone will upgrade from
> svn
> 1.x to svn 2.x in an environment that can't do flag days. Jack's
> protocol discipline allows us to say "upgrade the server first, and
> then
> the clients, and all will be well."

Yes, that's the idea.

> Jack's API discipline may be less important, if we're careful to make
> it
> possible to have both the svn 1.x and svn 2.x libraries installed on a
> machine.

I buy that, as long as the 1.x libraries continue to *work* (e.g.,
keeping a 1.x database access library isn't much help if the schema
changes).

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Jack Repenning
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