Just so you know somebody does read these notes...

No, we don't use it.

Martin Morrison
Application Engineer
Engineering Design Systems, Inc.
3780 Peters Creek Rd Ext SW
Roanoke, VA  24018
540.345.1410
gis.edsi.com

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jackie Ng
Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 11:17 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [mapguide-users] IMPORTANT: Do you use the SVN metadata feature on 
Windows?

Hi All,

In MapGuide Open Source 2.4, we included SVN metadata with most of the web tier 
files for a MapGuide installation on Windows so that if you have a svn client 
installed, you can "svn update" your files to pull down updates/fixes for any 
commits to these files that have been made since the official release.

However, due to subversion flagrantly breaking their working copy formats with 
each new version it seems (they did it with 1.7 and did it again with 1.8), I 
have been forever hamstrung on svn 1.6 in all my build environments on Windows 
just to support this feature. Users with svn > 1.6 have to explicitly upgrade 
their working copies before they can start "svn update"-ing their web tier 
files.

I also like to re-use my svn working copies as much as possible because 
multi-GB checkouts of MapGuide/FDO isn't cheap and fat bandwidth pipes in 
Australia doesn't grow on trees. The new Ubuntu 14.04 LTS release throws a 
monkey-wrench in my release plans (if we want to support this release, which I 
want to) because they now use svn 1.8 which cannot be downgraded and plays 
havoc with my new vagrant-driven build process for Linux.

So my question to you all is simply: Do any of you actually use this feature? 

As you can probably see it is becoming a bit of a burden for me, having to tie 
my build processes around a specific version of svn. I am strongly considering 
removing this feature unless there is strong evidence that there are people who 
are actually taking advantage of this feature.

- Jackie



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