Upcoming Subversion 1.7

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Jul 16, 2011, at 18:53, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2011-07-16 15:03:05 -0700, Blair Zajac wrote:
>> On Jul 16, 2011, at 2:28 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>>> Users who want Subversion 1.6 can still do so by following the how-to:
>>> 
>>> https://trac.macports.org/wiki/howto/InstallingOlderPort
>>> 
>>> Or they can use the svn client built into Snow Leopard (or, I expect,
>>> Lion).
>> 
>> Good point.  No need for us to provide 1.6 then.
> 
> I'm not really concerned, but
>  * installing an older port is not a good idea, as the users won't
>    get the bug fixes (the 1.6 branch is still supported upstream,
>    and there will probably be new versions);
>  * not all users are on Snow Leopard.


Sure, and I'm not recommending using an older version; naturally I recommend using the current version, to which the subversion port should be updated when it's available. This discussion was only for the benefit of users who have already demonstrated a desire to reject recommendations (sharing a working copy).

Also, this is not the first time this issue has come up; every other major version upgrade for subversion has had the same issue: working copy formats could change, and subversion will auto-update the working copy to the new format, breaking things for users who share working copies between different versions of subversion. And we haven't had any discussions about (or requests for) new subversion ports for older versions before (that I've seen).