From owner-svn-src-all@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 20 14:19:46 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-all@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 80C7C92B; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:19:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA6531C34; Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:19:45 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp118-210-82-188.lns20.adl2.internode.on.net [118.210.82.188]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r5KEJDYM098427 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:49:19 +0930 (CST) (envelope-from doconnor@gsoft.com.au) Subject: Re: svn commit: r251886 - in head: contrib/apr contrib/apr-util contrib/serf contrib/sqlite3 contrib/subversion share/mk usr.bin usr.bin/svn usr.bin/svn/lib usr.bin/svn/lib/libapr usr.bin/svn/lib/libap... Mime-Version: 1.0 (Mac OS X Mail 6.5 \(1508\)) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii From: "Daniel O'Connor" In-Reply-To: <51C304C0.5060208@freebsd.org> Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 23:49:13 +0930 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <0934C957-D21E-4DEA-8E4B-FEA396B57490@gsoft.com.au> References: <201306180253.r5I2rj45053959@svn.freebsd.org> <11DA3D8A-AD20-4DE1-B807-D09814F61947@bsdimp.com> <51C1C7BD.9060201@FreeBSD.org> <201306191113.29703.jhb@freebsd.org> <8D00BE2B-FD8E-4E7B-B818-1C4B7F6BB6A5@bsdimp.com> <51C2FF16.5080005@freebsd.org> <51C304C0.5060208@freebsd.org> To: Julian Elischer X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1508) X-Spam-Score: 0.163 () BAYES_00,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.67 on 203.31.81.10 X-Mailman-Approved-At: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 15:43:46 +0000 Cc: src-committers@freebsd.org, Andre Oppermann , Peter Wemm , John Baldwin , svn-src-all@freebsd.org, David Chisnall , svn-src-head@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans , Warner Losh X-BeenThere: svn-src-all@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "SVN commit messages for the entire src tree \(except for " user" and " projects" \)" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:19:46 -0000 On 20/06/2013, at 23:03, Julian Elischer wrote: >> And do you think that the sort of user who is sufficiently engaged = with the project to do this is the sort of user who would not be willing = to do so if it meant installing the subversion port? If so, then there = is a clear case for svnlite. >=20 > I think that it lowers the barrier.. once you start bringing ports = into the picture you start running the risk of port revision hell. If there is a statically linked port & corresponding package then the = barrier is almost as low, but has a few other advantages that other = people have listed. That approach has a small footprint (binary + man page), is always up to = date (so the VCS infrastructure is not tied to the earliest version of = SVN) and doesn't have any dependencies. -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C