On Thu, 2005-02-10 at 22:32 -0500, Paul Schlie wrote: > Out of curiosity, although svn certainly seems attractive, are there any > concerns observing that: > > - ironically it seems that the svn isn't itself under svn control but cvs? What? It's been under subversion control pretty much since day 1. Whatever gave you this idea? > Has svn ever been relied upon for a significant open source project?
Yes, Mono, all of the apache projects, SpamAssassin, etc. > > - there doesn't seem to be an analogous svn web-based viewer? There are many. The one that most people use as a cvs viewer, viewcvs, supports svn already. There is also websvn, chora, and a number of other svn repository viewers. This is not hard info to find, to be honest, http://subversion.tigris.org/project_links.html Under "repository browsing tools", lists the major ones. > Is one > planned to be available in the timeframe being considered for gcc use? Uh, if it wasn't, and they weren't already mature, we wouldn't be having this discussion. > > - would the intend be to pull the entire unified tree (i.e. binutils, etc.) > under svn? Not right now. > If not, might that create some potential complications? No more complications than currently exists. > > - is the svn client sw known to be cleanly build-able, reasonably robust. > and secure on all likely significant client platforms? Yes.
