Re: [PATCHES] CVS should die

On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Gaetano Mendola wrote:

> Heikki Linnakangas wrote:
>
>> FWIW, I think Peter's idea of offering Subversion as an alternative in 
>> pgfoundry is very good.
>
> Mmm, do you mean createing periodically "snapshot"? Yes this could be
> a good idea.

No, I mean that each project could choose to use either cvs or svn, like 
they do at Apache.

Sure, if you could have both, that would be even better.

>> I like subversion very much, but one thing that troubles me a bit is the 
>> number of extra libraries required to compile and run it. Also, is there 
>> pre-compiled binaries for all the platforms that PostgreSQL supports?
>
> I don't know about the server, but for sure what is more important here is 
> the
> client side and now that the win environment matter more then before,  I have 
> to
> say that TortoiseSVN ( tortoisesvn.tigris.org ) is much better then WinCVS.

True. Looking at the Subversion downloads page, they seem to have binaries 
for various Linux distributions, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD, Solaris, 
Mac OS X and Win32. According to the supported platforms chapter in 
pgsql documentation, we also support AIX, BSD/OS, HP-UX, IRIX, Tru64 
UNIX, UnixWare, and Linux on Alpha, arm41, m64, MIPS, PPC, S/390 and 
Sparc.

Developers on those platforms would have to compile subversion themselves, 
or compile pgsql from source tarballs.

Have you looked at TortoiseCVS (www.tortoisecvs.org)? I think TortoiseSVN 
is a fork of that.

- Heikki