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Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?
- From: "Max Bowsher" <maxb at ukf dot net>
- To: <cygwin-apps at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2004 00:42:28 +0100
- Subject: Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?
At some point in the medium-to-long-term future, I'd quite like to move the
setup code from CVS to Subversion.
Partly, that's because of all the little improvements subversion brings over
cvs, but a notable concrete benefit subversion would bring is the ability to
moves of files easily, without breaking up lines of history. This would be
of great value, because setup would benefit from refactoring into one or
more utility libraries, a core installation logic library, and one or more
user interfaces - i.e. GUI and TUI. The ability to make subdirectories and
move files into them, with ease, and without making it hard to access
historical versions is key to making this feasible.
If this is to proceed, I believe I'll need to contact the sourceware
overseers and discuss whether there would be any obstacles to setting up
subversion on sources.redhat.com .
Right now, though, I'm just looking for initial reactions.
I certainly wouldn't be proposing to start moving on this until after
Subversion 1.1 is released, packaged for cygwin, and has had a little real
world soak time - that would be about 2 months from now.
Max.