Re: Survey: compatibility vs speed of rdiff-backup development

Robert Nichols <[email protected]> Sun, 12 Feb 2023 07:53:17 -0600
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/12/23 05:05, EricZolf wrote:
> It's anonymous and anybody can stay anonymous, but the following comment worries me:
> 
>> We run multiple os's and struggle to keep one version of rdiff-backupacross the board as they don't all supply updates at the same time, 2.0 - 2.2 caused us pain by breaking backups for us
> Do I understand the last part of the sentence right that you had compatibility issues when migrating from 2.0 to 2.2? That's worrying because I really did my best to keep the compatibility in place, thought I had succeeded (after some little bugs [1]) and if I failed, I'm not sure how to improve and would need some more information about what happened.
> 
> Thanks, Eric
> 
> [1] most of those bugs were reported by rknichols, so if it's your entry, I know what you were referring to. I apologize for the inconvenience, but then I asked multiple times to test the beta, with focus on inter-versions aspects, which didn't happen a lot and are very difficult to test automatically.

Not my entry. I'm #2 ("I try harder," to paraphrase an old Avis ad).

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