On 10.02.2005 15:31:10 Thomas DeWeese wrote: > Jeremias Maerki wrote: > > > BTW, for those not listening into the infrastructure mailing list: There > > is a certain pressure building that PMCs start thinking about creating a > > plan (!) to migrate to Subversion. They want to eventually shut off CVS > > to get rid of the necessity for shell accounts for committers. This > > won't happen within the next 12 months, though, but we also need to > > start thinking about it. > > Actually it is proposed to happen in < 11 months (Jan 1, 2006).
I know. But given some people's resistance against SVN I guess it will take longer than that. > My biggest concern is the lack of an equivalent to > cvswrappers. At least in Batik we have a large number of > "binary" files - reference/asset images. It doesn't appear > that in SVN you can have them automatically treated as binary > you must manually update the SVN properties for each file. > > This isn't a huge issue for the initial import but it means that > whenever a new file is added the committer must remember to tag > it as binary - which in my experience won't happen 75% of the > time. :( I don't think this will be a problem. I found that Subversion is surprisingly reliable in this regard and will handle most files correctly without intervention. > I'll also have to update our nightly source dist script to > work with SVN. Yup, but that won't be a big issue, either. Jeremias Maerki --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache XML Graphics Project URL: http://xmlgraphics.apache.org/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
