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Date:      Tue, 18 Jun 2013 10:36:50 -0700
From:      Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
To:        Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org>
Cc:        svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans <tijl@coosemans.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org
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...
Message-ID:  <CAGE5yCoQ3XrR75ZRR3cY8eNJAYFxhsrhdp4ubKbhiej%2BwCrX3A@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <51C08F58.2070308@freebsd.org>
References:  <201306180253.r5I2rj45053959@svn.freebsd.org> <51C08D7E.2000605@coosemans.org> <51C08F58.2070308@freebsd.org>

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On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Andre Oppermann <andre@freebsd.org> wrote:

> AFAIK there is a checkout-only SVN client available, as in cvsup, but I
> don't remember the name.

svnup looks good on paper but has a fair way to go, particularly
performance wise after the initial checkout and its tendency to
explode.  I still want to see that imported though.  However, it is an
end user tool, not a developer tool.

>> I don't find it unreasonable to ask developers to install the port.
>> And for users it seems all they need is something like portsnap for base.
>> Portsnap already distributes ports svn so it shouldn't be too hard to
>> adapt it for base. And the extra layer it adds is very convenient. Apart
>> from a bigger than usual update maybe, portsnap users never even noticed
>> it was switched from cvs to svn at some point.
>
>
> Installing SVN from ports is very painful because of the huge dependency
> chain it carries, with the largest being Python and Perl IIRC.

That was one of my main motivations.  A 2 year old machine builds this
in ~35 seconds with *no* footprint.   The dependency abomination in
ports tests my non-violent nature.  This is a major source of pain on
the freebsd.org cluster and after the stealth perl ABI changes without
a version bump.. well..

-- 
Peter Wemm - peter@wemm.org; peter@FreeBSD.org; peter@yahoo-inc.com; KI6FJV
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