From owner-svn-src-head@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jun 19 02:55:33 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: svn-src-head@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 01EFF96D; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:55:33 +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 7ECCC1302; Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:55:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ur.dons.net.au (ppp121-45-114-28.lns20.adl6.internode.on.net [121.45.114.28]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.14.4/8.14.3) with ESMTP id r5J2t73M030830 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO); Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:25:14 +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: <51C08F58.2070308@freebsd.org> Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 12:25:07 +0930 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: <3F17672C-F72E-46E1-A6E9-503371041FE6@gsoft.com.au> References: <201306180253.r5I2rj45053959@svn.freebsd.org> <51C08D7E.2000605@coosemans.org> <51C08F58.2070308@freebsd.org> To: Andre Oppermann 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 Cc: svn-src-head@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, Tijl Coosemans , src-committers@freebsd.org, Peter Wemm X-BeenThere: svn-src-head@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: SVN commit messages for the src tree for head/-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2013 02:55:33 -0000 On 19/06/2013, at 2:18, Andre Oppermann wrote: >> 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. >=20 > Installing SVN from ports is very painful because of the huge = dependency > chain it carries, with the largest being Python and Perl IIRC. Perhaps there should be an svnlite port then, or svnstatic or similar. If an svnstatic port was installed as a package it would have no run = time dependencies, so not huge chains of stuff to install. -- 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