On 12.07.2012 21:20, Peter Samuelson wrote: > Reposting under a new thread + subject line, at Daniel's suggestion. > > [Markus Schaber] >> So my personal experience tells me that multiple-client scenarios are >> the common case, and that the deployment strategy (only using linux >> distro packages, or 3-in-1 bundles like VisualSVN) can reduce that >> problem. > So, we provide a pile of libraries that maintain ABI backward > compatibility. You can have as many different svn client apps on a > given system as you want, and so long as they are all using the same > copy of our libraries, there is no cross-version compatibility problem.
Like I said in my response to this in the other thread -- API or even ABI compatibility is not the issue. Working copy formats, wire protocol quirks, etc. etc. are more "interesting". And I really don't think it's up to us to tell packagers how to do their stuff. -- Brane -- Certified & Supported Apache Subversion Downloads: http://www.wandisco.com/subversion/download
