Tests for Subversion failing; version incompatibility?

[David M. Carr]

On Sat, Nov 5, 2011 at 2:22 PM, Mads Kiilerich <mads at kiilerich.com> wrote:
> David M. Carr wrote, On 11/05/2011 07:17 PM:
>>
>> I'm running the tests, and I can't seem to get the subversion-related
>> tests to work.  I've tried them both in a clean working copy of the
>> latest version, and previous versions, and seen the same behavior,
>> which makes me think it's something about how my machine is
>> configured.  Based on the actual differences in output, my guess is
>> that the output of various commands in Subversion changed between
>> versions, and the tests are assuming the output of a particular
>> version.  My system is Mac OS X v10.6 with Subversion 1.7.1.
>>
>> Am I correct in thinking that these failures are likely due to the
>> version of Subversion in use?  Is there a particular version of
>> Subversion needed to run the tests?  If so, what version?  I see that
>> hghave includes checks for Subversion 1.3+ and 1.5+.
>
> Yes, support for subversion 1.7 in the test suite didn't make it further
> than http://markmail.org/message/u757dedgiwn4kiz7 .
>
> The more important question is of course if convert from subversion 1.7
> really works correctly.
>
> /Mads
>

Thanks for the background.  For the moment, I was able to downgrade to
Subversion 1.6.17 to get the tests working. (I didn't try other
versions; that was just the latest non-1.7.x version I had available)

$ port installed subversion subversion-python25bindings
...
$ sudo port activate subversion @1.6.17_1 subversion-python25bindings @1.6.17_1
...
$ svn --version -q

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David M. Carr
david at carrclan.us