Any incompatibilities between 0.6.2 and 0.7 releases?

[John A Meinel]

Martin Pool wrote:
> On 25 Jan 2006, Andrew Lambe <alambe at oru.edu> wrote:
>> I'm currently using bzr 0.6.2 on my gentoo systems (since there is no
>> ebuild for 0.7 yet) but want to update my cygwin systems to use 0.7.
>>
>> I was wondering if there are any incompatibilities between 0.6.2 and
>> 0.7 that I should be aware of, not in terms of bzr commands (those I
>> know) but in .bzr
>>
>> For instance, if I commit revisions with 0.7 and merge/pull that branch
>> with another using 0.6.2, can I except any problems?
> 
> The only trick is that you should remove the xml.pyc (or .pyo) file from
> the installed directory if you're doing an in-place upgrade, or the
> whole bzrlib directory.  (See the recent thread about upgrades.)  If
> you're installing through a package manager it should take care of this.
> 

You know, we probably should have fixed the exception. We could do a
'try/except' around the import xml.sax and if it fails, we could let the
user know what is (probably) going on.

I can put a quick fix into my jam-pending branch, though it is a little
late for 0.7 :)

John
=:->


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