On Wed, Sep 7, 2011 at 4:51 PM, Neels J Hofmeyr <ne...@elego.de> wrote: > Hi all, > > I recently encountered (and started investigating) countless problems with > file externals. I would humbly suggest that 1.7 still has poor file > externals functionality ATM, and that this as such is not releaseworthy. > > But I think we could also still release and fix these things in backports, > not sure. Nevertheless, users that are on their chairs' edges waiting for > proper file externals in 1.7.0 would definitely be disappointed.
At this stage in the release process, my primary concern is "are these issues a regression from 1.6?" File externals in 1.6 were a hack; are we making things worse in 1.7? If things are on parity with 1.6, I don't see this as being anything close to a release blocker. -Hyrum -- uberSVN: Apache Subversion Made Easy http://www.uberSVN.com/
