Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:49:13 +0930 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>, Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>, John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@freebsd.org>, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Subject: Re: svn commit: r251886 - in head: contrib/apr contrib/apr-util contrib/serf contrib/sqlite3 contrib/subversion share/mk usr.bin usr.bin/svn usr.bin/svn/lib usr.bin/svn/lib/libapr usr.bin/svn/lib/libap... Message-ID: <0934C957-D21E-4DEA-8E4B-FEA396B57490@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <51C304C0.5060208@freebsd.org> References: <201306180253.r5I2rj45053959@svn.freebsd.org> <11DA3D8A-AD20-4DE1-B807-D09814F61947@bsdimp.com> <51C1C7BD.9060201@FreeBSD.org> <201306191113.29703.jhb@freebsd.org> <A5DB9B17-9622-4F65-A902-4984CDD82DC3@FreeBSD.org> <8D00BE2B-FD8E-4E7B-B818-1C4B7F6BB6A5@bsdimp.com> <F96228E4-16C3-4238-B54B-7E7C0C08B95B@FreeBSD.org> <51C2FF16.5080005@freebsd.org> <DA45DD0A-8576-4371-83EF-B3311AC067BA@FreeBSD.org> <51C304C0.5060208@freebsd.org>
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On 20/06/2013, at 23:03, Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org> wrote: >> And do you think that the sort of user who is sufficiently engaged = with the project to do this is the sort of user who would not be willing = to do so if it meant installing the subversion port? If so, then there = is a clear case for svnlite. >=20 > I think that it lowers the barrier.. once you start bringing ports = into the picture you start running the risk of port revision hell. If there is a statically linked port & corresponding package then the = barrier is almost as low, but has a few other advantages that other = people have listed. That approach has a small footprint (binary + man page), is always up to = date (so the VCS infrastructure is not tied to the earliest version of = SVN) and doesn't have any dependencies. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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