[Gnu-arch-users] Re: SHA1 sums for checksums file

[Neil Stevens]

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On Tuesday January 06, 2004 6:18 pm, Tom Lord wrote:
>     > From: Neil Stevens <address@hidden>
>     >
>     > On Tuesday January 06, 2004 4:25 pm, Colin Walters wrote:
>     > > On Tue, 2004-01-06 at 15:55, Neil Stevens wrote:
>     > > > As I jumped on tla 1.2pre0, moved all my sources to a new,
>     > > > signed archive, I appreciate your making things compatibile
>     > > > again.
>     > >
>     > > To be completely clear, the only incompatibility remaining is
>     > > that tla 1.2pre0 will barf on the newer checksums file.  But it
>     > > was a test prerelease, so there should not be an expectation of
>     > > strong compatibility constraints.
>     >
>     > That's not the line that was given throughout the 1.1pre series.
>
> Please relax.

I am.  That's what my first mail was: thanks for keeping things compatible 
in the way I need it. :-)

> 1.1 can read the 1.2preX archives, before or after Colin's patch, just
> fine.
>
> 1.2preX releases can read the 1.1 and earlier archives just fine.
>
> The incompatibility Colin is talking about is that if I merge his
> changes, then there will be some 1.2pre(X+1) which can generate
> revisions that 1.2pre0...1.2preX won't like.

I understand.

> I don't happen to think that that's a big deal but if you persuade me
> that it is, even that can limitation can be relaxed for some arbitrary
> period of time.   Indefinately, even, if it's that big a deal.

I agree that it's not a big deal.  All I care about is that future versions 
will be able to read my tla 1.2pre0 archive.

thanks,

- -- 
Neil Stevens - address@hidden
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