On Monday 26 January 2004 02:00, Andrew P. Lentvorski, Jr. wrote: > > What are the failures of Subversion and/or arch?
Subversion is in general not really good with really big repositories like the portage tree. Checking in an out a whole tree takes too much time for example, and there are wories (not researched) about whether it will allow concurrent access (concurrent read access is no problem). In general subversion is not ready to support the portage tree in our point. > To my mind, the web server dependency of subversion was a negative because > I was always dealing with small projects. However, I could see where > bundling this stuff up into a webserver could be a bonus for a large > project who already maintains their own web server. You don't need to use it, but it is great if you have to deal with braindead admins that only let you use internet through a proxy because that would be safer. (As if I can't sent everything I want over CONNECT) Paul -- Paul de Vrieze Gentoo Developer Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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