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Re: [RFC] Remove support for SQLite 3.7.7

From: Greg Stein <gstein_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2011 15:58:40 -0400

On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 15:12, Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis
<arfrever.fta_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> 2011-07-15 21:03:17 Daniel Shahaf napisaƂ(a):
>> Arfrever Frehtes Taifersar Arahesis wrote on Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 20:44:38 +0200:
>> > SQLite 3.7.7 contains a major bug, which has been fixed in SQLite 3.7.7.1:
>> > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-06/0858.shtml
>> > http://svn.haxx.se/dev/archive-2011-06/0872.shtml
>> >
>> > subversion/libsvn_subr/sqlite.c contains a workaround for this bug.
>> > SQLite 3.7.7.1 has been released 5 days after SQLite 3.7.7 and has now been available
>> > for 16 days, so IMHO we can assume that all users of SQLite 3.7.7 have upgraded to 3.7.7.1.
>> > I suggest to remove support for SQLite 3.7.7 by fully reverting these changes in
>> > subversion/libsvn_subr/sqlite.c (r1141133, r1140242, r1140239, r1139971) without adding any
>> > other checks for SQLite 3.7.7.
>>
>> This will break libsvn_wc and FSFS for anyone who happens to have 3.7.7 installed.
>
> I think that currently there are about 0 such users.
>
>> What will it gain?
>
> Simplification of code.

We have already worked around the bug in 3.7.7. There is no need to
disable support for that version.

Cheers,
-g
Received on 2011-07-15 21:59:13 CEST

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