On Mercurial API

[Mark A. Flacy]

On 2007.07.30 23:59, Dustin Sallings wrote:
> 
> On Jul 30, 2007, at 20:18, Mark A. Flacy wrote:
> 
> > OK, I'll bite:  Why are you supporting obsolete versions of  
> Mercurial?
> 
> 	0.9.4 isn't that old, and last I checked, 0.9.3 was still the  
> version ubuntu gives me.

So?  That's why you have version control and version numbers to start  
with.  There's no reason that I can tell to litter your code with  
version number checks unless you choose to do so.  If you choose to do  
so, stop whining about it.

> 
> 	I think the concern isn't so much how difficult it is to  
> maintain backwards compatibility, it's that the last three minor  
> versions have each  moved this command.
> 
> 	Would you invest a lot of time writing a plugin that you assume  
> wouldn't work if a 0.9.5 comes out?

If the plugin was useful, yes.

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Mark A. Flacy