Re: TortoiseSVN release management

Molle Bestefich wrote:

> Something like "prefer=1.2.3.4000" in version.txt, which could result
> in a dialog saying something like "You're running a different version
> than the recommended 1.2.3.4000. Would you like to switch to the
> recommended version of TSVN?" would be sweet.

I really hope you're kidding with that suggestion. That feature is
*only* intended to tell users when a new version is available. If you
want more, use the Windows server features to deploy msi's.

> Anyway, the version.txt format itself needs some thought.
>
> Starting with the next TSVN release, version.txt is going to be used
> in the wild.
> If more features are to be added later on, changing the format of the
> file is going to get more and more difficult, since old clients will
> likely barf on those changes.
> It might make sense to switch version.txt to a standard format that is
> easily parseable, extendable and can contain i18n text strings (eg.
> XML) now.....

If (and really *if*) we ever want to extend that, we can always just use
a different filename/registry key where TSVN should look for that file.

Stefan

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