Re: Is serf worth backporting to RHEL 5 and 6 for Subversion

On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 07:06:08AM -0400, Nico Kadel-Garcia wrote:
> I note that there is no libserf or serf RPM published, anywhere, for RHEL,
> and it's not yet enabled for Fedora. That makes the serf libraries a bit
> more awkward to integrate for testing. How much benefit is there in using
> serf rether than neon for subversion-1.7.x? I'm developing a sneaking
> suspicion that if anyone's going to bundle it for RHEL use, it's going to
> be me, and I don't know if it's worth the effort.

For now, don't bother with serf on RHEL. Just use neon.
There are currently no considerable benefits. Rather, there are still
issues with serf that neon does not suffer (which is why serf isn't
the default yet).

In some future release, using serf will result in more efficient checkouts
and updates, e.g. by avoiding repeated download of content already present
in .svn/pristine/
Received on 2012-04-20 13:22:54 CEST