Tests for Subversion failing; version incompatibility?

[Augie Fackler]

On Nov 5, 2011, at 1:22 PM, Mads Kiilerich 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.

I'll try to take a look at this shortly. I got patches for hgsubversion related to 1.7, so I have some rough idea of what might be wrong.

> 
> /Mads
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