SteveKing wrote:
> Olaf van der Spek wrote:
>
>> Eric J. Smith wrote:
>>
>>> That's pretty sad. Even though it is an open source project with
>>> developers
>>> mostly focused on *nix platforms, I bet the vast majority of their
>>> users are
>>> still Windows users. So you would think they would give them some
>>> priority.
>>
>> It probably depends more on the amount of Windows developers on the
>> project itself.
> That's what I mean - a bug which affects windows systems more than linux
> ones doesn't concern them much.
> I still hope they tag the release soon, but if they don't do that within
> the next minutes, I won't be able to release TSVN until tomorrow evening.
I think you are being a little unfair here, Subversion is cross platform so it has to take all
platforms into account. I had the same concern as you do when I started using Subversion - the main
issue being the very long delay between a source release and a Windows binary so I rewrote the build
instructions and now it is possible to build Subversion on Windows without having to spend days
working out how, and the binaries now appear much sooner than they used to.
We are CVS users and we paid Jim Blandy for support and to finish off the cvs server code (it used
to be direct file access to the repository only). It took us a couple of years to find and sort out
the Windows issues which could be sorted out. As part of this work the server had to have a pre
commit script to prevent file case collisions on the server and I have contributed the equivalent
script for Subversion (http://tinyurl.com/2nnu9).
It is very hard to resolve the differences between the Windows and Linux world given Microsofts
habit of being different wherever possible. Also, some of the goals of Subversion make this even
harder - like portability of working copies. Remember that it is early days - 1.0 was only released
earlier this year!
TortoiseSVN is an excellent front end for Subversion so it must be very frustrating having to wait
for fixes to the core code which mess up your bit, but a weeks delay is not that bad. Imagine you
were using Microsoft's ASP.NET and wanted it to generate valid xhtml, Whidby will do this but has
been delayed by a year:-)
--
Martin Tomes
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Received on Tue Jul 20 11:12:42 2004