Re: More on possible problem with Neon 0.25.0 [was Re: 1.3.0 RC1 ready to be rolled]

kfogel@collab.net wrote:
> The whole point of an RC is to be the same as what is finally
> released, so that what we're releasing has been through a soak period.
> We can't hack configure one way "for RC purposes" and then hack it
> another way "for the final 1.3 release" -- that would defeat the
> purpose of the RC.

I thought we were allowed to roll another release candidate if there was
a demonstrated problem (and whether it resets the soak period was
another argument).

In any case, it looks like someone already included much of the logic in
configure.in already:

> configure: checking neon library
> checking neon library version... 0.25.0
> You have a neon/ subdir containing version 0.25.0,
> but Subversion needs neon 0.25.3.
>
> An appropriate version of neon could not be found, so libsvn_ra_dav
> will not be built. If you want to build libsvn_ra_dav, please either
> install neon 0.25.3 on this system
>
> or
>
> get neon 0.25.3 from:
> http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-0.25.3.tar.gz
> unpack the archive using tar/gunzip and rename the resulting
> directory from ./neon-0.25.3/ to ./neon/
>
> no suitable neon found

was made possible by the following trivial change:

Index: configure.in
===================================================================
--- configure.in (revision 16707)
+++ configure.in (working copy)
@@ -227,7 +227,7 @@

  # Either a space-separated list of allowable Neon versions, or "any" to
  # mean allow anything.
-NEON_ALLOWED_LIST="0.24.7 0.25.0 0.25.1 0.25.2 0.25.3"
+NEON_ALLOWED_LIST="0.24.7 0.25.1 0.25.2 0.25.3"
  NEON_LATEST_WORKING_VER=0.25.3
 
NEON_URL="http://www.webdav.org/neon/neon-${NEON_LATEST_WORKING_VER}.tar.gz"
  dnl You can skip the neon version check only if you know what you are
doing

Along with a documentation change to INSTALL, that should be sufficient
warning.

John

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