[Zope-dev] Subversion externals versus mirroring

[robert rottermann]

Martijn Faassen schrieb:
> Hi there,
> 
> Christian Theune wrote:
>> a long-standing issue with our mirror of svn.zope.org are the absolute
>> URLs of externals: they require the repository to be available on a
>> given URL.
>>
>> I propose to use relative URLs for externals. I guess a complete update
>> isn't necessary, but I'd like to improve the situation and start using
>> them from now on. Maybe we should also put a commit hook in place as a
>> safety belt?
>>
>> However, this requires Subversion 1.5 which we are using on the server
>> already, but I don't know whether we assume clients are 1.5 or higher.
> 
> I certainly still use a SVN 1.4.x client, being on Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 
> (released just last year). I don't think SVN 1.5 is common enough yet to 
> make such a move possible.

you still can use 1.4 clients an a 1.5 server I think..

robert