I have no objection to SVN, but I haven't edited any sources in a while so maybe I'm not a good person to chime in. :-)
If we do decide to migrate to Subversion, we should use the SVN repository on SourceForge (it's not activated yet, but it's there to be used.) This helps to keep all FreeDOS-related resources in one place. -jh On 5/15/07, Lyrical Nanoha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007, Bart Oldeman wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > would people here support a conversion of the FreeDOS CVS repository > > (kernel, freecom, install, mem) to Subversion (SVN)? One big plus is > > that CRLF problems would be mostly a thing of the past... what has > > happened a lot is that people check out CVS files on *nix, get LF line > > endings, correct them to CRLF, check them back in, people on Windows > > check them out, see CRCRLF nonsense line ending, correct them, check > > them back in, and the game continues. Or files in .zip files get the > > wrong line endings, etc. With Subversion, you can specify a CRLF line > > ending for all text files so these things won't happen. I've used > > Subversion for a while with DOSEMU and it works well. > > > > I must say (from private mail) that Eric would rather stay with CVS > > because of unfamiliarity with SVN and the fact that the working > > directories take up twice the space (ie. 4MB instead of 2 for the > > kernel for instance). The extra space comes from the caching of the > > repository contents locally, which has its advantages too because an > > "svn diff" or "svn revert" does not need to contact the server. > > > > Another thing that may annoy some is that there exists no SVN client > > for DOS. On the other hand, there exists no network aware CVS client > > either... so I don't think anyone has ever checked out CVS sources > > from SF on DOS. Thus this is more of a theoretical issue. > > > > What do others think? I'd be happy to do the conversion myself. > > Bart > > I never really figured out cvs but I think I got the hang of svn pretty > well. If it would fix problems with the current system, without > introducing much of its own - and that seems to be the case from what > little I know of it - I say go for it (n/m that my initials are ALSO > "SVN")... > > -uso. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
