Thread: [Refdb-devel] CVS vs. Subversion
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From: Markus H. <mar...@mh...> - 2006-04-01 20:20:41
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Hi, I don't know how many RefDB users ever try to build from CVS. I guess there are some, and this message is relevant to those as well as to all developers. SourceForge has ongoing problems with their CVS servers. This currently prevents me from finishing the next prerelease and from adding a new RefDB application (soon to be announced). The Subversion servers seem to work ok. It is up to the project admin (read: up to me) to migrate the CVS repository to Subversion. I'm not in a hurry to do this, and I'd like to get your opinions first. Would the move to Subversion break anything? I'm afraid the refdb-cvs scripts would need an overhaul. Let me know what you think. If you don't know Subversion yet, just go to http://subversion.tigris.org/ to read more about this CVS replacement. regards, Markus -- Markus Hoenicka mar...@ca... (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de |
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From: Daniel O'D. <dan...@ul...> - 2006-04-01 22:01:01
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I've never used CVS so I can't compare it to SVN, but I am really happy with SVN which I use all the time. -d On Sat, 2006-01-04 at 22:20 +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote: > Hi, > > I don't know how many RefDB users ever try to build from CVS. I guess > there are some, and this message is relevant to those as well as to > all developers. > > SourceForge has ongoing problems with their CVS servers. This > currently prevents me from finishing the next prerelease and from > adding a new RefDB application (soon to be announced). The Subversion > servers seem to work ok. It is up to the project admin (read: up to > me) to migrate the CVS repository to Subversion. I'm not in a hurry to > do this, and I'd like to get your opinions first. Would the move to > Subversion break anything? I'm afraid the refdb-cvs scripts would need > an overhaul. Let me know what you think. > > If you don't know Subversion yet, just go to > > http://subversion.tigris.org/ > > to read more about this CVS replacement. > > regards, > Markus > > -- Daniel Paul O'Donnell Associate Professor and Acting Chair Director, Digital Medievalist Project <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> Department of English University of Lethbridge Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 Canada Vox +1 403 329-2377 Fax +1 403 382-7191 :@caedmon/ubuntu |
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From: David M. <mu...@an...> - 2006-04-03 12:33:59
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I've used both and think you should immediately switch to Subversion and never look back. - dam On 2006-Apr-01, at 17:00, Daniel O'Donnell wrote: > I've never used CVS so I can't compare it to SVN, but I am really > happy > with SVN which I use all the time. > > -d > > On Sat, 2006-01-04 at 22:20 +0200, Markus Hoenicka wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I don't know how many RefDB users ever try to build from CVS. I guess >> there are some, and this message is relevant to those as well as to >> all developers. >> >> SourceForge has ongoing problems with their CVS servers. This >> currently prevents me from finishing the next prerelease and from >> adding a new RefDB application (soon to be announced). The Subversion >> servers seem to work ok. It is up to the project admin (read: up to >> me) to migrate the CVS repository to Subversion. I'm not in a >> hurry to >> do this, and I'd like to get your opinions first. Would the move to >> Subversion break anything? I'm afraid the refdb-cvs scripts would >> need >> an overhaul. Let me know what you think. >> >> If you don't know Subversion yet, just go to >> >> http://subversion.tigris.org/ >> >> to read more about this CVS replacement. >> >> regards, >> Markus >> >> > -- > Daniel Paul O'Donnell > Associate Professor and Acting Chair > Director, Digital Medievalist Project > <http://www.digitalmedievalist.org/> > Department of English > University of Lethbridge > Lethbridge AB T1K 3M4 > Canada > > Vox +1 403 329-2377 > Fax +1 403 382-7191 > > :@caedmon/ubuntu > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting > language > that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the > live webcast > and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding > territory! > http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel? > cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 > _______________________________________________ > Refdb-users mailing list > Ref...@li... > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/refdb-users |
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From: Markus H. <mar...@mh...> - 2006-04-03 20:09:20
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Hi, I gather from this feedback that no one has to stick with CVS. I'll go ahead and migrate the CVS repository to Subversion in the near future. Before I do this, I'd like to clean up the repository a bit. Most important, I'd like to fold back the stable branch to the trunk as the latter has turned out to be sort of a dead end. But in order to do this cleanup, and in order to check my local changes I'll have to wait until the SourceForge CVS service online again. I'll let you know when the migration is done. regards, Markus David Mundie writes: > I've used both and think you should immediately switch to Subversion > and never look back. > > - dam > > On 2006-Apr-01, at 17:00, Daniel O'Donnell wrote: > > > I've never used CVS so I can't compare it to SVN, but I am really > > happy > > with SVN which I use all the time. > > -- Markus Hoenicka mar...@ca... (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de |
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From: Michael(tm) S. <sm...@si...> - 2006-04-04 00:59:46
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Markus Hoenicka <mar...@mh...> writes: > I gather from this feedback that no one has to stick with CVS. I'll go > ahead and migrate the CVS repository to Subversion in the near future. >=20 > Before I do this, I'd like to clean up the repository a bit. Most > important, I'd like to fold back the stable branch to the trunk as the > latter has turned out to be sort of a dead end. But in order to do > this cleanup, and in order to check my local changes I'll have to wait > until the SourceForge CVS service online again. I'll let you know when > the migration is done. Note that SF has a "Site Status" page that they don't do a very good job of advertising. There's a "Recent Updates" section on that page that gives details about the CVS outage - http://sourceforge.net/docs/A04/#section1 Their estimate appears to be that they'll have the CVS service available again late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. The description of the "single point of failure" architecture of the CVS service doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the long-term stability of the service. Even before this outage, it has been pretty spotty all along anyway -- inaccessible intermittently for short periods (and relatively long ones too). Anyway, it definitely provides some additional incentive to move to their Subversion service instead. Some wags have even suggested that the outage was carefully planned to scare project admins away =66rom the CVS service and over to the Subversion service (because the CVS service is a drain on support resources and they want to minimize the number of projects using it). I only wish I thought they were quite that smart. --Mike |
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From: Markus H. <mar...@mh...> - 2006-04-04 11:44:20
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"Michael(tm) Smith" <sm...@si...> was heard to say: > Their estimate appears to be that they'll have the CVS service > available again late Tuesday night or early Wednesday morning. > Thanks, it's good to have an estimate. > The description of the "single point of failure" architecture of > the CVS service doesn't inspire a lot of confidence in the > long-term stability of the service. Even before this outage, it > has been pretty spotty all along anyway -- inaccessible > intermittently for short periods (and relatively long ones too). > I noticed that too. This was one of the most annoying problems of SF so far. > Anyway, it definitely provides some additional incentive to move > to their Subversion service instead. Some wags have even suggested > that the outage was carefully planned to scare project admins away > from the CVS service and over to the Subversion service (because > the CVS service is a drain on support resources and they want to > minimize the number of projects using it). I only wish I thought > they were quite that smart. > Actually I figured that too, but I thought I was just paranoid. Thanks Markus -- Markus Hoenicka mar...@ca... (Spam-protected email: replace the quadrupeds with "mhoenicka") http://www.mhoenicka.de |
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