[illumos-Developer] [REVIEW] 259 SCM tools should work with wider range of Mercurial versions

[Garrett D'Amore]

On Sat, 2010-09-25 at 19:58 -0400, Richard Lowe wrote:
> Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> > It looks pretty good to me.  I note that this will require folks to be
> > running hg 1.3.1 or later.  What happens if someone tries to run their
> > existing copy of hg 1.1.2 with this version of cdm?
> >
> 
> It says it's not supported, and lists which versions are.  But really,
> 1.1.2 has not been current for a *LONG* time (the version in Solaris
> proper was upgraded to 1.3.1 prior to the 2009.06 release).

I realize that.  I don't have a problem with it not being supported, I
just want to understand the failure mode if someone tries.  Will it just
fail to run with a cryptic error, it will it actually give the user an
indication that he needs to upgrade?

	- Garrett
> 
> -- Rich
> 
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