Re: [Firebird-docs] Why not Subversion?

[Pavel C. <pc...@ib...>]

Gabriel Frones napsal(a):
> 
> I've just started using CVS with this project and another one Open
> Source I'm using... before it, I always used SVN.
> The thing is that for what I can see, Subversion is far simpler and
> faster (and I guess it has more features as well) than CVS (which I
> always had some difficulties to download the files).
> 
> So, why don't we use SVN instead? I don't think it would be too hard to
> import everything to it. It's just a matter of downloading and importing. :P
> 
> And for the users, I guess that anyone who uses CVS can use SVN. Either
> you use command-line or GUI tools.

It's a matter of inertia. SVN wasn't provided by SF when we started this
project, so everything is in CVS. We also have the SVN repository for
about a year now, but we can't easily migrate (i.e. with retained
history) our CVS to it, so only some subprojects moved over there (so
far only QA and .NET provider). Core engine should move to SVN for 3.0
development. Guess that Doc project can easily move to SVN at any time
if all active commiters would agree to do so. I could help to set up the
SVN tree layout.

best regards
Pavel Cisar
IBPhoenix