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

Hans-Christoph Steiner hans at eds.org
Fri Mar 31 21:20:03 CEST 2006


On Mar 31, 2006, at 7:53 AM, IOhannes m zmoelnig wrote:

> 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...


I wasn't serious, it was very much ;) I totally agree with all you  
say above.

.hc

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