Re: [PATCHES] CVS should die

Heikki Linnakangas wrote:

> I tried that yesterday out of curiosity. It had problems with 3 files
> which I removed manually:
>
> /pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/Attic/ApachePg.pl,v
> /pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/Attic/test.pl.newstyle,v
> /pgsql/src/interfaces/perl5/Attic/test.pl.oldstyle.pl,v
>
> Otherwise, no problems.
>
> Interestingly, the subversion repository is 585MB, and the CVS
> repository is only 260MB, so apparently Subversion is not very good at
> compressing the repository. Not that it matters, though.
>
> FWIW, I think Peter's idea of offering Subversion as an alternative in
> pgfoundry is very good.

Mmm, do you mean createing periodically "snapshot"? Yes this could be
a good idea.

> I also agree with Andrew's observation that it's really up to the
> committers since they are the ones that have to work with whatever
> system we have.

That's true, but is really sad see Tom Lane think twice to move a file or
not because CVS.

> I like subversion very much, but one thing that troubles me a bit is the
> number of extra libraries required to compile and run it. Also, is there
> pre-compiled binaries for all the platforms that PostgreSQL supports?

I don't know about the server, but for sure what is more important here is the
client side and now that the win environment matter more then before, I have to
say that TortoiseSVN ( tortoisesvn.tigris.org ) is much better then WinCVS.

Regards
Gaetano Mendola