On Wed, May 6, 2020 at 7:11 PM sebb <seb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, 6 May 2020 at 23:58, Sam Ruby <ru...@intertwingly.net> wrote: > > > > TL;DR: it would be feasible to port the entire Whimsy code base over to > > Node.js, get it up an running on whimsy-vm6 hosted on Ubuntu 20.04 > > (Focal Fossa). There would be a number of advantages to doing so. > > [snip] > > > > It appears that svn added a new command line parameter > > --password-from-stdin. I added support for this parameter to the > > node.js board agenda tool yesterday: > > > > https://github.com/rubys/whimsy-board-agenda-nodejs/blob/d2b46afa81ccd980c416109f6c9c4fea198b508f/src/server/svn.js#L54 > > > > If you are running on a Mac, you may or may not have a version of svn > > that supports it. brew upgrade svn will get it for you. > > > > The version of svn in the repositories for Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 don't > > support this parameter. The version of svn in the Ubuntu 20.04 > > repository does. > > AFAICT, the Infra Puppet repo does not (yet) support Ubuntu 20.04. > This could be an issue.
Looks like it is in progress: https://lists.apache.org/thread.html/re1d4b619f716e8a29a49decc0ae9f369ceffc09c2264e1a9eb13c42f%40%3Ccommits.infra.apache.org%3E In any case, we are not (yet) ready to take advantage of it. But it may make sense to plan ahead. - Sam Ruby
