Re: warning: subversion now at 1.6.2

[Jens Rehsack <rehsack%googlemail.com@localhost>]

Eric Gillespie wrote:
> Greg Troxel <gdt%ir.bbn.com@localhost> writes:
> 
>> Jens Rehsack <rehsack%googlemail.com@localhost> writes:
>>> subversion notes in it's INSTALL documentation, that apr-util is required.
>>>
>>>> Subversion also depends on the following third-party libraries:
>>>> * libapr and libapr-util (REQUIRED for client and server)
>>> They don't talk about apr0 and AFAIK apr-util requires apr>=1.3.0.
> 
> apr0 is just pkgsrc's package or apr *and* apr-util 0.9.x.

My point was: they write in INSTALL, that svn requires apr *and* apr-util,
and don't loose a word about that apr-0.* without apr-util works, too.

Maybe a note should be dropped to the svn developers/packagers to adapt the
INSTALL file.

>>> Maybe the subversion developers list can say more - but I'd suggest to keep
>>> out apr0 support.
>> Well, I just added back because the release notes don't say that apr0
>> was dropped.  I did a test build of subversion with apr1 and that was
> 
> It's fine; they didn't drop 0.9.x support.  That's quite unlikely
> ever to happen in svn 1.x (and svn 2.x is quite unlikely to happen).

The sacred cow of downward compatibility ... :)

Jens