[PD-dev] Re: pixelTANGO & pd-extended

[IOhannes m zmoelnig]

Hans-Christoph Steiner wrote:
> 
> 
> Yeah, its been down it seems...
> 
> http://sitedocs.sourceforge.net/status/support_sitestatus.html
> 
> Time to switch to SVN?  ;)
> 

while i do see your emoticon, i still have to say:

i am personally all for svn (iem has switched to svn on sourceforge just
recently and it all works perfectly); however, i would strongly
recommend to not switch NOW, just because the CVS harddisk crashed (or
whatever their problems are).

-) a hardware failure can happen to a system running SVN as simple as to
one running CVS. it just happened that CVS went down, it could as well
have been SVN.

-) switching would involve a lot of careful preparation, especially in a
project as big as pd (with so many people involved); it is not a matter
of "right this system went down, lets get us running again with
something else"

-) sf still does not provide an ACL mechanism for SVN

-) people are used to CVS!! i think the whole reasoning about whether to
switch to SVN or not is void, as long as not everybody has agreed on and
accepted using it. currently only a handful of developers have commented
on SVN at all; i am still waiting for miller to say something on this...


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