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Subversion Hits Alpha

Posted by timothy on from the bang-on-it-if-that's-your-thing dept.

C. Michael Pilato writes: "This overheard while eavesdropping on announce@subversion.tigris.org: Gentle coders, The ever-growing cadre of Subversion developers is proud to announce the release of Subversion 'Alpha' (0.14.0). Since we became self-hosting eleven months ago, we've gone through ten milestones. This milestone, however, is the one we've always been working towards; it's a freeze on major features for our 1.0 release. From here out, it's mostly bug-fixing. We hope this announcement will lead to more widespread testing; we welcome people to try Subversion and report their experiences on our development list and issue tracker." Subversion, a source control system akin to CVS, has been in the works for a couple of years now.

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  1. testing subversion/cvs... by grey1 · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Does anyone have a test set to try subversion (or cvs) out with, lying around at the back of a directory somewhere?

    Seriously, though, how, other than using it for real, might one test subversion? And how would you recover from the bugs that will be in there without devoting your life to it for a few weeks?

    Just wondering.
    Graham

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  2. Questions about scons by A+nonymous+Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A first look at their website brings up some annoyances concerning what they claim to be improvements over make:

    Configuration files are Python scripts--no new syntax to learn.

    Unless you don't know Python. I never figured make syntax to be very difficult.

    Support for C, C++, Fortran, Yacc and Lex.

    I didn't realize this was an improvement over make, which is pretty language-agnostic. What about other languages? I usually assume listing specific elements means unlisted elements are NOT supported.

    Support for parallel builds (-j).

    That -j option look like they borrowed it from make.

    Building from central repositories of source code and/or pre-built targets.

    Not sure exactly what this means, but make understands RCS and SCCS, IIRC. Been a while since I used the feature.

    All in all, a first glimpse which finds all this FUD in a list of alleged improvements doesn't impress me. Some of the other claims might be useful, but they don't have enough credibility left for me to want to investigate.

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