[Zope-CMF] Subversion?

[Jens Vagelpohl]

On May 4, 2005, at 3:44 , Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Well it would make things homogenous with the rest of Zope and
> Zope-related projects. And you could do checkouts of Zope + CMF or  
> Plone
> + CMF or CPS + CMF with only a few well placed svn:externals in one
> command.

You're slightly contradicting yourself here. It's not "the rest of  
Zope and Zope-related products" that are on SVN. It's only Zope 2.8+,  
Plone stuff and CPS. I would claim the opposite and say that most  
Zope-related products are still on CVS, and a few large ones  
(especially Plone/Plone-related products and CPS) are on SVN.


> And frankly merging and cheap branches and having diff -r PREV:BASE
> makes svn much nicer to use day to day.

Haven't had any problem doing branches and diffing in CVS, that's a  
purely subjective observation.


> The cvs2svn script is quite mature, migrating is not difficult in
> itself, and ZC has already done it for Zope.

That's unrelated to my original opinion, really.

Don't get me wrong here, I'm not trying to diss anyone, it's just  
that I haven't seen many "valid" arguments for such a move that  
really benefit most active developers. At least for Zope itself there  
were a couple good arguments if I remember correctly, but they had to  
do with Zope repository specifics (stitching in unrelated stuff etc).

Now, if there was zero cost to switching, fine. I can deal with  
having to get further into SVN. But there is a cost, especially for  
those people who do the repository migration and then presumably  
cleanup. You're "force-volunteering" people at ZC right now to do  
that work. They should have the final word, if anyone.

jens