Re: [PATCH 2/3] ci: update Perforce version to r23.2

From: Patrick Steinhardt <ps@pks.im>
Date: Jul 31, 2024, 10:15 UTC
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2024 at 05:48:38PM -0500, Justin Tobler wrote:

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> On 24/07/23 04:05PM, Patrick Steinhardt wrote:
> > Update our Perforce version from r21.2 to r23.2. Note that the updated
> > version is not the newest version. Instead, it is the last version where
> > the way that Perforce is being distributed remains the same as in r21.2.
> > Newer releases stopped distributing p4 and p4d executablesas well as the
> 
> s/executablesas/executables as/
> 
> > macOS archives directly and would thus require more work.
> 
> Out of curiousity, for Perforce is there a defined range of versions
> that the Git project supports? I guess I'm trying to figure if it even
> makes sense to support older version of Perforce in our tests.

Not that I'd know of. Which is why I'm being doubly cautious to deprecate support for older versions :) Not that many people would care, but still, I don't want to make such decisions without having any clue at all about the surrounding Perforce ecosystem.

Patrick