This is the mail archive of the
gcc@gcc.gnu.org
mailing list for the GCC project.
Re: Moving C to its own directory (was Re: ObjC tree inlining)
On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 08:25:54PM -0500, Phil Edwards wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 20, 2001 at 05:13:15PM -0800, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > I say if we wait about another six months Subversion[1] will be usable
> > enough that we can scrap CVS, and then we'll have a version control
> > system that actually understands renaming files.
>
> Wow, are they that far along? It's been a while since I looked... Shoot,
> if Subversion is a viable replacement within the next several months,
> I'm more than willing to wait.
Yeah, they're on track to have something viable around the same time
we kick 3.1 out the door. The status page says that they're at 0.6,
with "svn mv" and "svn cp" already working on files, and lists
upcoming releases:
* Subversion 0.7 (Mon 3 Dec 2001): Branching and tagging.
* Subversion 0.8 (Thu 20 Dec 2001): "Simple" merging
(ancestry-sensitive merging is optional for this
milestone). Diffs on network in both directions.
* Alpha (TBD): Most commonly used features completed.
* Beta (TBD): Release candidate, heavy testing. Possible inclusion
of newer, less popular features.
* 1.0 Release (TBD): Release.
I'm a bit nervous about the number of weird libraries with unstable
interfaces they want (neon, APR), and wonder if the client will wind
up being as portable as we need it to be. They do seem aware of the
issues, and they've got *BSD people on the team so at least it won't
be all-the-world-is-Linux crap.
When they get to beta I may do some trial conversions of our existing
repository, time permitting.
zw