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Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Raise minimal required version of Neon to 0.27

From: Blair Zajac <blair_at_orcaware.com>
Date: Mon, 08 Sep 2008 08:11:45 -0700

Stefan Sperling wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 03:14:46PM -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
>> There's really nothing to gain from doing so except for limiting the systems
>> that svn can install on. I don't see the point. You never know when somebody
>> has some ancient system that they want to install svn on. It just makes it more
>> work then for somebody to get it installed.
>
> +1
>
> It's nice when things still work on old boxes.
>
> I'd argue not removing existing support for third party software
> from Subversion unless:
>
> 1) It obviously becomes too much of a maintenance burden for some reason.
> 2) We need to upgrade the dependencies because old versions don't
> have required features.

+1 on these.

Blair

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