On 10/18/07, Micah Elliott <mde@micahelliott.com> wrote:
> On 2007-10-18 Moore, Tom wrote:
>
> > I have the option to install Subversion on Solaris on a Sparc,
> > Solaris X86, or on Linux. I was looking to see if there was
> > any anecdotal evidence out there supporting one platform over
> > the other (other then the obvious expense of a Sparc vs a x86
> > platform)
>
> I'll speculate that the vast majority of the world runs Linux as
> their Subversion server. So that's +1 for being the most widely
> used, and therefore most discussed and debugged platform.
>
> I'll also speculate that the developers develop it primarily on
> Linux. +1
>
> Another +1 is that most Linux distros package it for you so you
> won't have to do all the manual building of it (and its
> dependencies!). And +1 you can even rely on your distro to keep it
> up to date for you.
>
> And as you mentioned, +1 Linux is free.
>
> That's a lot of +s.
OTOH, the largest platform-dependent part that Subversion relies upon
is in APR. (Other than APR, there's hardly any platform dependent
code.) And APR is probably the most widely tested cross platform
library around, being the Apache HTTPD portability layer.
So, from a stability point, it shouldn't really matter.
(And, as a matter of fact, even though Solaris is probably not a main
platform for development, some developers do have solaris boxes
available for building + testing. But many developers mix their
development on Linux with either Windows or Mac OS X [ or even both!
]).
HTH,
Erik.
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Received on Thu Oct 18 18:04:07 2007