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Re: [SM-Discuss] neon, subversion & the stable grimoire
- From: Elisamuel Resto <samuel AT dragonboricua.net>
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- Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] neon, subversion & the stable grimoire
- Date: Thu, 9 Oct 2008 15:14:34 -0400
On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:01:33 +0100, Ethan Grammatikidis wrote:
> Neon is required for Subversion to support http checkouts, but
> subversion is picky about neon version. Stable 0.25-0 has neon 0.28.3
> and subversion 1.5.1 which are not compatible. Compatibility will
> eventually be needed for support of svn_http urls in sorcery, so really
> there should be some testing with subversion to help determine which
> version of neon goes into stable. This is not helped by the fact that
> subversion will fail to report an error if neon is requested but the
> version is not suitable. It will silently build without it.
>
> I would like to place a permanent warning in the neon spell to test that
> subversion definitely builds with neon in stable-rc before allowing
> inclusion into stable, or some words to that effect. I was thinking of
> placing the text as comments in DETAILS. Does this seem like a good idea
> to everyone? Does anyone have a better idea? Should a similar warning be
> placed in the subversion spell?
That would help, I assume. I say put it in. We got 6 days left for the
stable-rc-0.26 deadline, so it won't be an issue with stable for much longer.
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[SM-Discuss] neon, subversion & the stable grimoire,
Ethan Grammatikidis, 10/09/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] neon, subversion & the stable grimoire, Elisamuel Resto, 10/09/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] neon, subversion & the stable grimoire, Jaka Kranjc, 10/09/2008
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Re: [SM-Discuss] neon, subversion & the stable grimoire,
Jeremy Blosser, 10/09/2008
- Re: [SM-Discuss] neon, subversion & the stable grimoire, Thomas Orgis, 10/10/2008
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