Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:36:50 -0700 From: Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> To: Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org 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: <CAGE5yCoQ3XrR75ZRR3cY8eNJAYFxhsrhdp4ubKbhiej%2BwCrX3A@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <51C08F58.2070308@freebsd.org> References: <201306180253.r5I2rj45053959@svn.freebsd.org> <51C08D7E.2000605@coosemans.org> <51C08F58.2070308@freebsd.org>
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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote: > AFAIK there is a checkout-only SVN client available, as in cvsup, but I > don't remember the name. svnup looks good on paper but has a fair way to go, particularly performance wise after the initial checkout and its tendency to explode. I still want to see that imported though. However, it is an end user tool, not a developer tool. >> I don't find it unreasonable to ask developers to install the port. >> And for users it seems all they need is something like portsnap for base. >> Portsnap already distributes ports svn so it shouldn't be too hard to >> adapt it for base. And the extra layer it adds is very convenient. Apart >> from a bigger than usual update maybe, portsnap users never even noticed >> it was switched from cvs to svn at some point. > > > Installing SVN from ports is very painful because of the huge dependency > chain it carries, with the largest being Python and Perl IIRC. That was one of my main motivations. A 2 year old machine builds this in ~35 seconds with *no* footprint. The dependency abomination in ports tests my non-violent nature. This is a major source of pain on the freebsd.org cluster and after the stealth perl ABI changes without a version bump.. well.. -- Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV On IRC, talking about C++: <BigKnife> I think that it is a good thing I will never meet Bjarne on a street <BigKnife> cause really, I don't want to end up in prison or anything
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