On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:42:28AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
At some point in the medium-to-long-term future, I'd quite like to move
the
setup code from CVS to Subversion.
Partly, that's because of all the little improvements subversion brings
over cvs, but a notable concrete benefit subversion would bring is the
ability to moves of files easily, without breaking up lines of history.
This would be of great value, because setup would benefit from
refactoring
into one or more utility libraries, a core installation logic library,
and
one or more user interfaces - i.e. GUI and TUI. The ability to make
subdirectories and move files into them, with ease, and without making it
hard to access historical versions is key to making this feasible.
If this is to proceed, I believe I'll need to contact the sourceware
overseers and discuss whether there would be any obstacles to setting up
subversion on sources.redhat.com .
Do you really think this would be the first time anyone has raised this
issue to overseers? It has come up repeatedly.