bzr-svn

[Russel Winder]

Jelmer,

On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 15:01 +0100, Jelmer Vernooij wrote:
> On Fri, 2008-12-05 at 08:59 +0000, Russel Winder wrote:
> > bzr-svn 0.4.16 is only compatible with bzr 1.10 because of the version
> > check it makes.  Reverting to r1776 of the 0.4 branch, i.e. remove the
> > final update of version numbers and the tag from the working tree, and
> > everything works fine.  So bzr-svn 0.4.16 actually works fine with bzr
> > 1.9.
> > 
> > I think there needs to be more flexibility and less rigidity in all this
> > version number checking.  Alternatively, releases need to be much better
> > coordinated so that users don't get so much hassle.
> > 
> > I know this is the bleeding edge in some ways, so some issues are
> > expected, but irritating the early adopters isn't helping with the
> > message.
> For most use cases, it should indeed work fine without problems.
> However, bzr-svn breaks with bzr 1.9 when used with checkouts, in which
> case it errors out trying to retrieve the nick name during commits.

Good job I don't use checkouts or I would have found this problem
earlier !

Clearly part of the is that I have been using 0.4.16dev which had a
potential problem, but I didn't have that situation so everything was
fine for me even though there was a potential problem.

Can I make a suggestion:  The version dependency should change with the
commit that makes the breaking change.  This way issues get flagged
during the development phase in a way that makes people aware before
there might be a problem.

I guess I should stop using the branch and just use the released deb
files.

Can I make a bit of a plea:  Can whoever is doing the 1.10 roll out make
sure that:

	bzr
	bzrtool
	bzr-svn

all have packages in the release PPA at the same time.

Thanks.


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