>>>>> "Roland" == Roland Mainz <roland.mainz at nrubsig.org> writes:
>> We can't provide full histories for all files. Roland> Why ? I expect it was concerns about some of the delta comments being unsuitable for external disclosure. >> But IIRC the plan (at least for ON) is to provide the SCCS delta >> comments for the 5 years prior to the June 2005 launch. Roland> That's close to Solaris 7 FCS, right ? >From poking around in some old workspaces, I'd say early in Solaris 9 development. Roland> Once the prototype has been finished&&approved the work gets Roland> moved to the OpenSolaris repository within Sun. Ah, okay, this makes sense. >> Notes: [1] I've seen a few internal email messages from people trying >> to use SVN through Sun's firewall. The mails pretty uniformly say >> it's painful, apparently due to problems with Sun's network >> infrastructure and proxies. Roland> Known problem. You may want to try to use "svn" build with SOCKS Roland> support (e.g. configure --with-socks= at build time). And there Roland> are java-based socks server available which are pretty much Roland> secure and crash-proof (thanks to java) which could be placed at Roland> some SWAN gateway... Steve Lau reported some recent success using SVN over ssh, so maybe things have gotten better. Anyway, I agree that having an initial SVN repository on genunix.org is a good approach to pursue. Let me know if there's anything I can do to help. mike
