As Weddington, Eric wrote: > > Incidentally, is there a reason why avr-libc is hosted with CVS > > rather than Subversion?
(Btw., applying the tag wasn't as painful even with CVS as I thought. But yes, it's simpler and more consistent in SVN.) > Age of the project. We have logs going back to 1999. I suppose that > we could migrate to SVN. Joerg would probably have to do most of the > heavy lifting to move it over. As you mentioned, I've done it with AVRDUDE before on Savannah. It's not a really big deal. We have to abstain from commits for a few days, until the savannah admins imported the SVN dump that is used as the base for the migration. Now is probably a good time for a switch. > > I think the key point is whether the key avr-libc developers > > /want/ to move to subversion, and want to think about how they > > would organise the subversion tree structure - that's probably > > more effort than the mechanics of the conversion itself, which is > > fairly automated. > Well I can't speak for everyone, but Joerg and I have used both, and > I know that Joerg has converted other open source projects from CVS > to subversion (avrdude comes to mind). Anatoly and Dmitry are also > main contributors, so they would have to speak up. But I highly > doubt anyone would object to it. As usual, it's probably just that > we all have higher priorities on our todo list. If there's consensus about it, I'll simply prepare it. I wouldn't want to reorganize much, i.e. just use the defaults. This means what is currently CVS head will end up in trunk/, and in parallel to trunk will be tags/ and branches/ subdirectories. SVN doesn't really distinguish between both, so it's just a convention which of these subdirectories are used when tagging the tree: tags/ is used for things that are assumed to be never committed again into, while branches/ is used as a branch in the CVS sense (although we just agreed to not start a branch immediately again unless necessary). So again, if there's no objection against switching to SVN, I'll prepare it -- say, within the next week or so. Dmitry, Anatoly, Anitha, is that fine with you? -- cheers, J"org .-.-. --... ...-- -.. . DL8DTL http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-) _______________________________________________ AVR-libc-dev mailing list AVR-libc-dev@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/avr-libc-dev
