On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 13:16 +0000, R. Diez wrote: > Hi Jeremy: > > > > The GNU tools are held at: > > > > http://opencores.org/ocsvn/openrisc/openrisc/trunk/gnu-src > > The gnu-src repository is huge and takes a long time to check out, especially > under Cygwin. These are the some of the subdirectories: > > bd-elf > bd-elf-gdb > binutils-2.18.50 > binutils-2.20.1 > gcc-4.2.2 > gcc-4.5.1 > gdb-6.8 > gdb-7.1 > gdb-7.2 > newlib-1.17.0 > newlib-1.18.0 > > I don't see why the average developer should download both the old and the > new versions of GDB, Newlib and GCC every time. Some key components, like the > or1ksim, must be downloaded separately anyway.
That is a good point. We should keep the legacy in a separate directory. I'll look at reorganizing the SVN hierarchy to do this. > I would remind any new developer that the OpenCores Subversion > repositories are behind a registration wall > that wants some personal information from you, probably for marketing > purposes. There is no anonymous access, so they have full control > about who is allowed to look at the code inside. If anything happens > to the foundation/company/whatever behind these servers, there are no > public mirrors that I know of, so at least the check-in history would > probably be lost. This is a long-standing issue with OpenCores, but does not affect whether you use git or SVN. It is about whether you use OpenCores or GitHub (or SorceForge for that matter). > By the way, Github can emulate a Subversion server, so users do not > even need to learn git, and Subversion repositories can add external > references to Github repos as if they were normal Subversion > repositories, see here: > > https://github.com/blog/966-improved-subversion-client-support > We are rather going down the route of "git is the answer, now how do we change the question to fit the answer". I use SVN, CVS and git professionally. They all have their strengths and weaknesses. For every expert who marvels at the richness of git, there is a beginner baffled by its complexity. The answer is to use the right tool for each job. And for the whippersnappers out there, I'd just like to point out that we didn't have all these difficulties when there was just RCS. And don't get me started on the simplicity of just using a quill pen. And another thing, what's wrong with clay tablets for note taking... Jeremy -- Tel: +44 (1590) 610184 Cell: +44 (7970) 676050 SkypeID: jeremybennett Email: [email protected] Web: www.embecosm.com _______________________________________________ OpenRISC mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openrisc.net/listinfo/openrisc
