[RFC] Workingstyle of different VCS systems

[Matthew Woehlke]

Andreas Pakulat wrote:
> On 12.04.07 11:36:24, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
>> Andreas Pakulat wrote:
>>> Aha, so aegis doesn't have a history of what part of a file was changed
>>> by whom. Does it know who changed a file last time? I guess annotate
>>> should be  an optional function.
>> Yes it should be optional, because (as I noted previously) our version 
>> of p4d - which, I admit, is ancient and way overdue for an upgrade that 
>> isn't going to happen :-( - does not support it either. At any rate I 
>> don't think scripts can rely on it. It would be awesome if it could be 
>> added at runtime (depending on the p4d version) but as long as it can 
>> fail with an error message, that's fine with me.
> 
> Well, we can't support that atm, i.e. the plugin cannot decide during
> runtime which interfaces it supports, but an action failing is always
> possible.

I didn't think it was, ah well, wishful thinking. :-) I would just fail 
with a nice "sorry, your server is too old" message (and return failure 
from the method), that should be fine.

-- 
Matthew
GDRLaH - Grin, Duck, and Run Like a Hippo! :-)