Re: Space wasting

On Tue, Mar 09, 2004 at 12:42:42AM +0200, Adal Chiriliuc wrote:
> If somebody skims over this list it gets the following picture:
> We're hardcore Linux users and don't give a f**k about Visual Studio
> bugs. Fix it yourself or shut the f**k up.
>
> This is bad for business.

Personally I don't care about Visual Studio. But even still I think
this is entirely not an accurate portrail of the response of the
subversion developer community.

The response is pretty simple. This is not a bug in subversion. It
shouldn't be fixed in subversion. It needs to be fixed in Visual
Studio.

It's apparent that they're going to fix this. But further there is an
easy workaround for this for those that have a problem with it, they
just need to change the #define in the code.

The alternatives are to always build with a different working copy admin
dir name on Windows. Which breaks compatability between other operating
systems that we're still using .svn on.

We can change it for all operating systems to a name without the leading
dot. But that breaks the hide functionality that Unix systems rely on.

In the end we'd end up inconviencing a larger group of users for a
bug that isn't in our code and doesn't affect all of our users.

-- 
Ben Reser <ben@reser.org>
http://ben.reser.org
"Conscience is the inner voice which warns us somebody may be looking."
- H.L. Mencken
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