>>>>> "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

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