Re: ra_svn/svnserve: remove support for v1 and non-edit-pipeline?

On 6/24/07, David Glasser <glasser@mit.edu> wrote:
> The svnserve protocol has two versions, v1 and v2. It also has a
> variety of extra "capabilities", including "edit-pipeline".
>
> v2 and edit-pipeline were introduced before Subversion 1.0.0 was
> released. Our general compatibility guidelines do not require us to
> continue to be compatible with pre-1.0 clients or servers.
>
> Is there any reason not to drop support for v1 and non-edit-pipeline
> clients and servers? That is, we would raise the minimum version
> required by the server to 2, and make both client and server error out
> if the other side is not advertising the edit-pipeline capability.
>
> This would allow us to remove a large amount of duplicated dead code
> (including some code that has always been dead, like the non-pipeline
> implementation of ra_replay).

I removed v1 support from the server in r25568 and the client in r25569.

I haven't removed non-edit-pipeline support, which will be a bigger
win in terms of code complexity (we'll basically get to delete the
entire editor.c file, which duplicates editorp.c with slight changes).

--dave

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David Glasser | glasser_at_mit.edu | http://www.davidglasser.net/
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