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  • Committer: John Arbash Meinel
  • Date: 2011-05-11 11:35:28 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 5851.
  • Revision ID: john@arbash-meinel.com-20110511113528-qepibuwxicjrbb2h
Break compatibility with python <2.6.

This includes auditing the code for places where we were doing
explicit 'sys.version' checks and removing them as appropriate.

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Transports that hide symlinks
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On local, sftp and bzr+ssh transports, we can directly see symlinks as
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symlinks.  Over http (and ftp?) they're expanded by the server and we
 
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On local, SFTP and bzr+ssh transports, we can directly see symlinks as
 
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symlinks.  Over HTTP (and FTP?) they're expanded by the server and we
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cannot detect them.  This can cause problems when bzr follows relative
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paths because typically we will join the paths, and we may do this
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inconsistently with how the server, which can see the symlinks, would do.