From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Nick Roberts Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: deleting rcs keywords from emacs sources Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:17:06 +0000 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <16480.32546.790216.984532@nick.uklinux.net> References: <5192113.1080035471618.JavaMail.root@tintin.london.ongenie.net> <20040323122810.7979.JMBARRANQUERO@wke.es> <20040323131316.GA29657@fencepost> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1080070059 2250 80.91.224.253 (23 Mar 2004 19:27:39 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 19:27:39 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juanma Barranquero , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Mar 23 20:27:30 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5rYf-0007Lg-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:27:29 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1B5rYf-0002cy-00 for ; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 20:27:29 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5rYL-0006g3-03 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:27:09 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5rXg-0006OJ-6t for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:26:28 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.30) id 1B5rX7-0005rN-RM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:26:26 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.41.8] (helo=mx20.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.30) id 1B5rWk-0005Es-FM; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 14:25:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.247.51.192] (helo=nick.uklinux.net) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1B5qbq-0005gF-DG; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 13:26:42 -0500 Original-Received: by nick.uklinux.net (Postfix, from userid 501) id 88FF075FDF; Tue, 23 Mar 2004 18:17:07 +0000 (GMT) Original-To: Miles Bader In-Reply-To: <20040323131316.GA29657@fencepost> X-Mailer: VM 6.97 under Emacs 21.2.1 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.4 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:20815 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:20815 > > while Subversion is modelled to be "a better CVS". Switching to Subversion > > would be, I think, a lot less painful. > > Actually I suspect that arch would is likely easier, despite the differences > -- its network model is extremely flexible and simple, and it has none of the > special hosting requirements that subversion does. > > I say "is" because as you might know, there's _already_ an emacs arch archive > (synchronized with CVS), which could take over from CVS quickly if the > developers wanted that (the main sticking point being that it's running on > fencepost, not on savannah, so anyone that wanted commit access would need to > have ssh access there; moving to savannah would probably be pretty > straightforward except that _everything_ involving savannah is slow :-) There is a project called Xouvert on Savannah that is trying to use arch for version control. If you look at their mailing list you'll see that they have had difficulty because of security issues. It might be a good idea to monitor their progress (or lack of it). Nick