Re: lists.gnu.org and savannah.gnu.org (CVS) updates

[Andrew Haley]

Mark Wielaard writes:
 > Hi Archie,
 > 
 > On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 13:39 -0600, Archie Cobbs wrote:
 > > Mark Wielaard wrote:
 > > >>If you have
 > > >>the cvsutils installed then you can easily switch to the new CVS
 > > >>location by running this in your CVS working copy:
 > > >>cvschroot <savannah-user-name>@cvs.savannah.gnu.org:/cvsroot/classpath
 > > > 
 > > > And for those of you using anonymous CVS you need to switch to pserver:
 > > > $ cvschroot :pserver:address@hidden:/cvsroot/classpath
 > > 
 > > Hmm.. could this new infrastructure include possible a switchover from
 > > CVS to Subversion? (I'm so used to SVN now that CVS is gotten pretty
 > > gross to deal with).
 > 
 > Subversion support for savannah is planned in the future. And it might
 > make sense to adopt it then since other projects that rely on GNU
 > Classpath also use it and it makes merging easier. On the other hand
 > subversion is still a bit immature and not widely supported yet (for
 > example on builder.classpath.org we needed to install the latest
 > 1.3.0rc4 to get around some network timeout issues). CVS might be old
 > and clumsy at times, it is much more mature and supported atm. That
 > said, if savannah adds subversion support I would vote for us to switch.

Oh, yes.  After a slightly painful start I'm starting really to enjoy
using svn.

Andrew.