Roma locuta est (was RE: [Plib-devel] CVS vs SVN)

[Fay J. F Dr C. U. AFSEO/SK <joh...@eg...>]

Gentlemen,

	I asked Steve (he's not been abducted by aliens, by the way) about
changing the CVS repository over to SVN and got the following response:

<quote>
Fay John F Dr CTR USAF AFSEO/SK wrote:

>         In case you haven't been checking your open-source e-mail at 
> all, there's a question on the PLIB list asking whether we should move 
> the CVS archive over to SVN.  SVN would apparently have the advantage 
> that I can get to it directly.

That alone makes it worth the effort.  Yeah - I don't really see a problem
with that.  Can we preserve the edit history through the changeover?

One really wonderful thing about SVN is that you can remove/rename
directories.  We should probably take this opportunity to rationalise some
of the junk out there.
</quote>

So ... Who can do the actual conversion from CVS to SVN?  Are there any
other issues that need to be addressed in the conversion?  I have a couple:

(1) Somebody raised the question of a SourceForge SVN versus a foreign SVN.
I have been successful at getting to JC Jones' private SVN, but I have not
tried on SourceForge.  Is this going to be an issue?  Does somebody know of
an SVN repository on SourceForge that I could try to download?

(2) The "UL" directory eventually needs to be renamed "ul" and the "ul"
library moved from the "util" directory into it.  The "util" directory is
the result of a typographical error and should go away.  The question is, is
it easier to do this during the conversion or should it be done as a
separate step?  Unless Steve is mistaken about the ability to remove and
rename directories, I would vote for making the conversion in one step and
changing "util" to "ul" in a second step.

John F. Fay
Technical Fellow, Jacobs/Sverdrup TEAS Group
850-729-6330
joh...@eg...
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Bram Stolk [mailto:pli...@li...] On Behalf
Of Bram Stolk
Sent: Friday, May 05, 2006 5:30 PM
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Subject: RE: [Plib-devel] CVS vs SVN


> ... Have I missed any relevant issues?

Yes.... Steve seems to be abducted by Aliens :-) I haven't seem him post or
mail anything for quite a while.

Steve... are you catching up on some decades of sleep that you owed your
self?

We need your verdict: most plibbers have a preference for svn.

  Bram