Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:01:03 -0500 From: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> To: Mischa Peters <mischa2023@gmail.com>, freebsd ports <freebsd-ports@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Subversion 1.3.0-rc2 Message-ID: <p06230905bfb0f4224bb6@[128.113.24.47]> In-Reply-To: <6364140F-2C30-489B-9B38-BFF503F66499@khera.org> References: <e2c462550511280549o5c102617x19a9c62c72347e23@mail.gmail.com> <6364140F-2C30-489B-9B38-BFF503F66499@khera.org>
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At 10:00 AM -0500 11/28/05, Vivek Khera wrote: >On Nov 28, 2005, at 8:49 AM, Mischa Peters wrote: > >>It would also be nice to know why there is an RC in /usr/ports, >>and why there isn't a subversion-devel tree. >> > >Thanks to your earlier warning, I avoided upgrading subversion... > >I too also wonder about why stable port versions are replaced >with pre-release software in ports. This seems like just a bad >choice by the maintainer, but I'm not sure if it violates any >policies of the ports system. Perhaps there should be some >policy regarding stability of software. And subversion is a particularly bad port to be "adventurous" with, since it serves such an important role for the people who use it. ...but with that said, I should also note that I upgraded to the subversion 1.3.0-rc2 port (I happened to do it the very evening before Mischa Peters sent the first warning message!). I have not seen any problems. The projects I use it for are admittedly small, so that probably doesn't mean much. On the other hand, I also don't see many reports of other people having trouble with this release-candidate version. Do you have any backups of your repository? (disclaimer: I am not an expert in subversion, I am just experimenting with it for a few of my projects...) -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@freebsd.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute or drosih@rpi.edu
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