[MERGE][0.16] Allow new smart client to work with old (<= 0.15) smart servers.

[Martin Pool]

On 4/24/07, Andrew Bennetts <andrew at canonical.com> wrote:
> After a suggestion from Robert, this bundle will allow the new hpss clients to
> work with old smart servers again.  It does a version probe in
> RemoteBzrDirFormat.probe_transport, and if the server isn't new enough then the
> new hpss logic won't be used — which allows the old VFS-only "smart" operations
> to be tried instead.
>
> i.e. you can do "bzr log bzr+ssh://" with new bzr on the client, and bzr 0.15
> (or even 0.11) on the server and it will Just Work (although no quicker than if
> you had bzr 0.15).

I find this bundle pale and unsatisfying.

-- 
Martin