On 19/06/13 02:40, Glenn Adams wrote: > On Wed, Jun 19, 2013 at 1:05 AM, Chris Bowditch > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hi Glenn, >> >> >> On 18/06/2013 11:12, Glenn Adams wrote: >> >>> To be more clear, I propose we replace FOP's implementation of UAX14 with >>> use of ICU's line break iterator, and that ICU becomes a standard >>> dependency for FOP. >>> >>> However, before taking a decision on this, allow me to create a branch >>> (on github) that actually makes this change so that folks can evaluate it. >>> Is that a reasonable approach? >>> >> >> +1, but I think we should create the branch in SVN as Vincent mentioned. >> SVN is still the Version Control system used by the XML Graphics project. >> > > When I've completed the work in a github branch of a fork of the apache/fop > mirror, I'll upload it to an SVN branch for folks to review who prefer SVN. > Me, I've stopped using SVN for active development. Github is just so much > better.
By getting involved in FOP development you accept the project’s practices... including a VCS you may not like :-) Or, if you feel strongly enough about it, you can promote a switch to Git, now that it’s officially supported by Apache. That said, have you tried playing with git svn? FWIW, I have a Git repo that sits on top of the svn checkout and, after ironing out some wrinkles, I find that the process works just fine. Vincent
