On Jul 27, 2009, at 10:31 AM, Julian Foad wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-07-20 at 23:23 -0400, James Abbatiello wrote:
>> Currently svntest parses the output of `svn proplist --verbose` to
>> retrieve the list of properties for an item. When the output format
>> of this command changed between 1.5 and 1.6, svntest was updated to
>> understand the new format (but only the new format). As a result you
>> need matched versions of svn and svntest in order for it to function
>> correctly. It is not forward or backward compatible.
>>
>> This is apparently not a problem for development of Subversion but
>> cvs2svn pulls in svntest as an external and uses it with whatever
>> version of svn that the user currently has installed. Things break
>> when the user doesn't have the expected version installed.
>>
>> It would be nice if svntest would be able to query properties
>> successfully even when run with 1.5. Writing a parser that
>> understands both text formats seems difficult but there's the '--xml'
>> option to output in XML format and it seems made for just this
>> situation. Is there something precluding the use of the XML format
>> for svntest?
>
> I don't think there is anything precluding the use of "svn proplist
> --xml" for svntest's property-checking functions.
Nor do I, just as long as we make sure to still test the "standard"
output somewhere in the testsuite.
-Hyrum
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Received on 2009-07-28 08:11:12 CEST