[haiku-development] Re: New way to access subversion for developers
- From: "François Revol" <revol@xxxxxxx>
- To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sat, 14 Jun 2008 16:06:04 +0200 CEST
> >> I guess this means that the BeOS/Zeta port has to be updated to
> >> support the https scheme. It is currently not possible to commit
> > > any
> >> changes with the current svn client.
Anyone on it yet ?
Having an updated client would also means faster operation as it uses a
different method with less small files.
> > I am sorry, but I find this unacceptable. I use BeOS as my only
> > operating system and have 4 machines with a total of 8 repositories
> > (counting buildtools) using the svn+ssh method plus a few with
> > anonymous svn. I have currently three commits ready but I am now
> > just
> > unable to commit them? Doing such a switch without prior warnings
> > so
> > that people needing updated binaries for their platform have at
> > least a
> > chance of continuing working is IMO just very bad practice. I
> > usually
> > liked the BerliOS hosting because it worked pretty well for me, but
> > moves like this are just unacceptable and I have to vote for moving
> > hosts ASAP. Especially for an institution hosting open source
> > software
> > and helping alternative operating systems I cannot believe the
> > ignorance displayed by that. I sure hope that this is just another
> > temporary thing that has been exceptionally badly communicated.
+1.
Maybe it's just temporary but if it's not it'd have been nice to be at
least notified.
> While we are on topic, I'd like to understand if everybody think that
> staying with a centralized version control system instead of a
> decentralized
> like git or mercurial is still a good idea?
There is nothing wrong with svn yet. I'm not sure what changing would
bring, besides everyone committing to their own repos without anyone
knowing what's happenning...
OTH I got http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/wiki/ working in Zeta the
other day (it's mostly a python script, though I think some tests
failed).
I need it for OpenSound and XEmacs.
François.
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