Re: [Plib-devel] Submenu Colors in PUI

[Andy R. <an...@pl...>]

James 'J.C.' Jones wrote:
> I could set up a SVN repository on my web server. It has higher
> uptime than SourceForge, large bandwidth and sufficient disk
> space... the only problem is it's generally considered awkward for
> the project's source repository to be dependent on one person.

Big warning: Subversion is great -- similar to but better than CVS in
almost every way.  Except for one, which is IMHO a dealbreaker:

Subversion stores its data in db4 files, which are NOT a standardized
format.  They change incompatibly between versions of Berkely db.  I
got bit badly by this at one point with a personal repository.  I
upgraded my main server from FC3 to Ubuntu Hoary and hosed the svn
archive.  To my knowlege, there are *no* recovery tools for this
situation.  The only solution was to boot back to the old OS, do a
full dump, and then restore it under the new OS.

The obvious correlary here is that backups of svn archives made by
simply copying the files are dangerous unless you know exactly the
version of software on which they were made.  In the general case, you
won't be able to restore your archive on an arbitrary host.

I'd stick with CVS.  Subversion can be made to work reliably, but not
by a casual sysadmin.  Unless you're planning on doing your backups
and archiving via a full dump, and testing restores, I'd stick with
CVS.  It has much cleaner failure modes, a human-readable file format,
and an upgrade path that doesn't require a full dump/restore of the
database.

Andy