Brent 'Dax' Royal-Gordon wrote:
Matt Fowles wrote:
I thought that subversion was tried for use with Parrot and found unexceptable for some reason a while back. I am not trying to discourage you guys... I personally prefer svn to cvs, but I think it would be wise to determine of those problems still exist.
IIRC, we tried it for ponie, and the problem was that it took an insane amount of time to perform a simple checkout or update operation. But that was largely because of the combined girth of Parrot and Perl 5--Parrot by itself should be much more manageable.
Not to say that Subversion might not still be too slow for Parrot--just that we can't be sure it is until we try, and this seems like a much wiser way to do so than converting the master repository.
It was also a rather long time ago, before subversion 1.0, and many performance problems were fixed in the meantime.
-garrett
