Marc Weustink schrieb: > Graeme Geldenhuys wrote: >> Florian Klaempfl wrote: >>> >>> Years of experience with fpc showed that very few people are testing >>> such branches. Even rcs aren't intensively tested, just look at the >>> resource trouble with fpc 2.4.0 >> >> Not to get into all that again (you can read the archives), but >> SubVersion >> doesn't lend itself to easily using branches. So I don't think the >> problem >> is the lack of developers wanting to test new features in other branches, >> but rather the effort (and time) forced by the repository system used. I >> simply don't have the time to wait 5 minutes for a new branch to be >> checked >> out, to simply find it totally useless, and then wait another 5 >> minutes to >> checkout out the previous branch I was using. Not everybody has super >> fast >> internet or uncapped bandwidth - which such testing with SubVersion would >> require. > > I didn't have that experience when I was developing graphics in a > separate lcl branch. I can't remember how I did it, but it was just one > simple svn statement and a few secs waiting. >
flor...@ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ ifconfig eth0 | grep "RX bytes" RX bytes:57135108 (57.1 MB) TX bytes:1798253 (1.7 MB) flor...@ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ svn switch http://svn.freepascal.org/svn/fpc/branches/fixes_2_4 > log flor...@ubuntu32:~/fpc/branches/trunk$ ifconfig eth0 | grep "RX bytes" RX bytes:57681323 (57.6 MB) TX bytes:1814129 (1.8 MB) -- _______________________________________________ Lazarus mailing list Lazarus@lists.lazarus.freepascal.org http://lists.lazarus.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/lazarus