Re: Moving C to its own directory (was Re: ObjC tree inlining)

[Sam TH <sam at uchicago dot edu>]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 11:14:38AM +0000, Joseph S. Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Zack Weinberg wrote:
> 
> > 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.

As to the wierd libraries, they will certainly be stable by the time
SVN is (which I'm not sure will be in the next 6 months).  I think
neon can currently be relied upon, and APR will be a part of Apache
2.0 when that is released (which should be soon, I think).  

> 
> Also, is the BerkeleyDB file format used in repositories stable long-term
> between BerkeleyDB releases?

It is stable between compatible DB releases, and upgrades nicely (with
no effect on the client) when not.  

> 
> Some obvious questions that the "Subversion for CVS Users" page doesn't
> cover are:
> 
> * What's the equivalent of cvs -z<n> (link compression)?  In general, how
> do the bandwidth-efficiency of checkouts and updates compare between CVS
> and Subversion?

It's all compressed, and it's way better, in answer to those two
questions.  

> 
> * What's the Subversion equivalent of CVS-over-SSH?
> 

Eventually SVN will be able to use HTTPS, just as any other apache
server can.  I don't know of concret plans to implement encryption in
the client at the moment, but I expect it to be done in a reasonable
timeframe.  

> * What's the Subversion equivalent of cvsweb, and is there one available
> in which the Subversion sources and their history can be browsed?
> 

There isn't one yet, but the author of webcvs (a cvsweb replacement in
python) is one of the lead SVN developers.  


           
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