Re: Source packages / Switch to Subversion

Hi Björn,

How are things?

Agree, without formal releases, source packages fill a gap.  Historically, 
Terry always handled those.  Agree also, there may be sufficient other 
benefits to convert to SVN anyway.  So, personally, I'd be happy to go 
along with it.

Arnaud what is your preference?  Björn is right, your opinion matters most 
these days.

I'd also like to hear from folks on the list.  Are there many folks keeping 
a local source tree via CVS?  Are you already using SVN for other projects?

I have a few questions about SVN conversion:

1) Can/should we preserve our revision history in the conversion?

2) Can keep a read-only CVS repository for reference purposes?

3) Is there a need to group individual file checkins into "transactions" of 
sorts (I'm thinking like CVSZilla) to generate the global project 
versions?  Or do you just get a global version for each and every file 
revision?

4) Is the source package generation capability an SVN thing, or a 
SourceForge thing?

None of these is critical.  Just curious what we'll end up with after 
conversion.

all the best,
Charlie

There are conversion tools that appear to address the above questions.  So 
this may not be too bad.
http://cvs2svn.tigris.org/
http://www.polarion.com/products/svn/svn_importer_features.php#CVS



At 12:40 PM 12/23/2008 +0100, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
>Hi,
>
>   I've been receiving a couple of requests to bring source packages back
>or failing that switch to Subversion, in which case source packages are
>automatically generated. There have also been suggestions to switch in-
>dependently of source packages, with little merit though as it's mainly
>Arnaud who's hacking the sources these days.
>
>I am happy to make the switch to Subversion, I'm less happy to install
>and run some script to automatically generate source distributions. Any
>thoughts on the matter?
>
>regards,
>--
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