Re: Subversion Release Candidate

[Garance A Drosihn <drosih@xxxxxxx>]

At 11:00 PM +0100 2/1/04, Jeroen Ruigrok/asmodai wrote:
> -On [20040201 21:12], Jeremy Messenger (mezz7@xxxxxxx) wrote:
>  > Any replacement of CVSup? It will be nice if someone create a
>  > new tool similar to CVSup, but without depend the EZM and use
>  > SVN instead CVS or use both CVS and SVN by choice.
>
> It's on my list (SVNSync) as well as svn2cvs.  Progress is slow,
> but moving forward.

For what it's worth, there is an effort underway to rewrite the
CVSup client in C.  In fact, there were TWO efforts underway, one
in C++ and one in C.  The C effort was farther along, so I gave
up on the C++ rewrite once I found out about the other one.

I think the goal is to have a "base-system-able" CVSup client
available (at least for testing) by the time FreeBSD 5.3 is
released.  Perhaps sooner, if someone was willing to pay to
underwrite the coding effort.  By "base-system-able", I just
mean that it will require only C, and it will have a BSD license.
I think this is just the client though.  People running a CVSup
server might still need the modula-3 compiler.

The main reason I'm mentioning this is that I wouldn't want a
THIRD rewrite to start up at this point!

[I'd also say that I'm also very interested in subversion, and I
hope to start playing around with it soon, but I would not commit
any huge repository to it just yet...]

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