On Wed, 2005-10-19 at 16:55 -0700, Kean Johnston wrote: > >>I fear the impending switch to subversion will have a negative impact on > >>the future development of gfortran due the rather limited number of people > >>who actually supply patches and the sudden increase in hardware > >>requirements. For example, I find > >> > >>troutmask:sgk[204] du -sh gcc40 gcc41 trunk 241M gcc40 <-- CVS 4.0 > >>branch 275M gcc41 <-- CVS mainline 694M trunk <-- svn mainline > >> >
> > I recently tried to re-open the discussion on the svn list but > got nowhere. I saw no postings that contained anything like a design for doing this, etc, to the dev list from you. Only posts to the user list saying that you'd like no text base. That's nice. What did you expect? Some users will agree with you, and some won't. If you went to Slashdot, and says "i'd like gcc to optimize better", you'd probably get a similar cross section of answers. Of course, you seem represent this thread you started as having actually involved any subversion developers, which it didn't, AFAIK, and as something that was potentially productive, which it stood no chance of being, given how you wrote it. Nobody on the dev list actually disagrees with the idea of no-text-base or compressed text base support in subversion, AFAIK. However, like GCC, we are all volunteers. It will happen when someone has time and effort to make it happen. > I would *dearly* love to see an option to svn that > uses a simple checksum or something to figure out if a file has > changed, or an 'svn edit' that copies the file to the textbase > on an as-needed basis. > I fear it will never happen though. Can you please stop fear-mongering? The first is a known, planned feature for SVN, that actually had someone from the Summer of Code working on it, which happened to not work out. Sometimes these things happen. To be perfectly honest, none of the people paid to work on subversion have tackled it yet because *most users don't care about the penalty*. It turns out we have users that do. Thus, i will probably take some of my copious amounts of free time, and work on it, if nobody else does. --Dan
