Seeking initial reactions: Moving setup from CVS to Subversion?

[Christopher Faylor]

On Thu, Aug 19, 2004 at 12:42:28AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
>At some point in the medium-to-long-term future, I'd quite like to move the 
>setup code from CVS to Subversion.
>
>Partly, that's because of all the little improvements subversion brings 
>over cvs, but a notable concrete benefit subversion would bring is the 
>ability to moves of files easily, without breaking up lines of history. 
>This would be of great value, because setup would benefit from refactoring 
>into one or more utility libraries, a core installation logic library, and 
>one or more user interfaces - i.e. GUI and TUI. The ability to make 
>subdirectories and move files into them, with ease, and without making it 
>hard to access historical versions is key to making this feasible.
>
>If this is to proceed, I believe I'll need to contact the sourceware 
>overseers and discuss whether there would be any obstacles to setting up 
>subversion on sources.redhat.com .

Do you really think this would be the first time anyone has raised this
issue to overseers?  It has come up repeatedly.  There has never been
consensus on the best source control system to use.

I don't see any need to make cygwin's setup code development different
from the rest of cygwin and its packages.

I would not support such a move.

cgf