2009-07-28 06:49:22 David Glasser napisał(a):
> On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Hyrum K. Wright<hyrum_at_hyrumwright.org> wrote:
> > 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.
>
> The Python versions we support ship with an XML parser, right?
Apparently yes:
$ python3.1 -c 'from xml.dom.minidom import parseString'
$
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Received on 2009-07-28 14:59:14 CEST