Running different versions of bzr

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Ram wrote:
> New question #86384 on Bazaar:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/bzr/+question/86384
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> I have a setup where our company's development server runs CentOS 5 with a bzr 1.3.1 installation.
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> Our developers have MacOSX laptops with bzr 1.17 installed.
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> Are there compatibility issues in using such a setup with a centralized repository? Should I upgrade the CentOS bzr installation from source to the same version that's on the macs?
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> Thanks for your help,
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> Ram
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AFAIK the two versions of bzr will work together. They won't work
together *optimally* though. Namely, there are probably some new RPCs
that we added between 1.3 and 1.17 that the newer client will want to
use, and then fall back to 'dumb' operations if those fail.

1.3 is 15 months older than 1.17 (2008-04 vs 2009-07).

There will be some operations which *could* fail. Such as if the client
was using a 1.9 format repository (it obviously wouldn't be recognized
with a 1.3 format server).

However the default in 1.17 was still --pack-0.92 which was supported
since <1.0.

So, it should work, it would work better if you upgraded the server.

John
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PS> I believe the general 'performance/compatibility' work has been done
with the idea that the server will be newer. Since that is 1 place to
upgrade, versus upgrading all N clients.
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