On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Andre Oppermann <an...@freebsd.org> wrote:
> AFAIK there is a checkout-only SVN client available, as in cvsup, but I > don't remember the name. svnup looks good on paper but has a fair way to go, particularly performance wise after the initial checkout and its tendency to explode. I still want to see that imported though. However, it is an end user tool, not a developer tool. >> I don't find it unreasonable to ask developers to install the port. >> And for users it seems all they need is something like portsnap for base. >> Portsnap already distributes ports svn so it shouldn't be too hard to >> adapt it for base. And the extra layer it adds is very convenient. Apart >> from a bigger than usual update maybe, portsnap users never even noticed >> it was switched from cvs to svn at some point. > > > Installing SVN from ports is very painful because of the huge dependency > chain it carries, with the largest being Python and Perl IIRC. That was one of my main motivations. A 2 year old machine builds this in ~35 seconds with *no* footprint. The dependency abomination in ports tests my non-violent nature. This is a major source of pain on the freebsd.org cluster and after the stealth perl ABI changes without a version bump.. well.. -- Peter Wemm - pe...@wemm.org; pe...@freebsd.org; pe...@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV On IRC, talking about C++: <BigKnife> I think that it is a good thing I will never meet Bjarne on a street <BigKnife> cause really, I don't want to end up in prison or anything _______________________________________________ svn-src-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/svn-src-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "svn-src-all-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
