Hi, Andrew Dunstan wrote:
1. The buildfarm is very heavily dependent on CVS, and any change to anything else will be quite painful. There is no guarantee that all the members even have SVN installed,
But you can guarantee they have CVS or even cvsup installed? That seems dubious to me.
let alone anything else. And someone would have to code and test significant client changes. That said, a lot of the tortuous logic could be removed - change detection would almost just resolve to comparing two tree numbers with SVN, for example.
..and a *real* VCS (as in monotone :-) ) would provide not only that, but give you correctness guarantees, built in certification of revisions (i.e. each buildfarm member could issue a cert on successful testing) and lightweight branches, so you could much easier test experimental patches of different authors. Just to name a few additional advantages.
2. Many people (and some buildfarm members) operate against mirrors of the main repo which are created with rsync or CVSup. I am not aware of any way to do the equivalent with SVN - any info would be gratefully received.
You might want to have a look at svk. It can do exactly that. And the Blog of Thomas explains how, see [1].
Of course, SVN is better at disconnected operation than CVS,
Really? I've dropped subversion exactly because it sucks big time when disconnected. But again, I'm probably not comparing against CVS...
I have no doubt we'll change someday to something better. I don't know what it is and I don't think we need to be in any hurry. This space is still very fluid.
Yup. Good to hear you see it that way. As I understand, you have good reasons to be still using CVS, but are open to good suggestions. That's a very good thing, but easily slips by when reading all the critics and pro-CVS statements. ;-)
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