Pier Fumagalli wrote:
And no issues in UNIX AFAICS... We (VNU) have already planned the adoption
of SVN as our backend repository for a number of reasons (the primary one
being that we will use it as our distributed filesystem, having our web
applications deployed from a URL like http://svn.vnunet.com/app/live )...
I assumed it was written primarily on UNIX--much like CVS originally
was. That would explain the client/server reliability in those
environments.
But as for you, for us the client is _damn_ important... And we need not
only to think about UNIX (server side), but with windows (JSPs amd XML
writers) and with MacOS/9 and X (all our graphics production team)...
Yep. To be honest I would not be happy if the server was on a Windows
box--but that's just me. Windows is OK for the client (I am forced to
use it for that), but it sucks for a server IMNSHO.
Honestly, the primary concern for me is the svn CLI binary. All I want
to do is use that. I don't use WinCVS, and most of the time do my
checkouts/updates manually using CygWin (I love that tool--it lets me
pretend I am on Unix while being forced to use Windows).
We're testing hard on the baby, it's not quite there yet, but looks so
promising to us that we're investing quite a good amount of time on it..
That's good news. I know XP gave the Mozilla project some fits (and for
some reason I seemed to be the only experiencing those problems), but
they seemed to have worked them out now. I am looking forward to when
it is finished. I think the concept rocks.
I do have one question though. In Cocoon CVS, and Avalon CVS, and many
project's CVS, the source code has a "magick string" that automatically
gets updated by CVS with the current revision and date that the file
was last checked in. Will SVN have a replacement for that? Or will
it support that feature from CVS? I imagine it would be a little more
daunting as any checkin would update the $revision: 1.5.1.2$ string
in every file because there is only one number for all the files. That
would force all files to be updated everytime something is checked in.
Anyway, it isn't that important--but important enough to let people
know about it.
