From maintainers-request at octave dot org Tue Nov  1 23:41:01 2005
Subject: Re: source control management for Octave
From: Paul Kienzle <pkienzle at users dot sourceforge dot net>
To: Stefan van der Walt <stefan at sun dot ac dot za>
Cc: Andy Adler <adler at site dot uottawa dot ca>,         octave maintainers mailing list <maintainers@octave.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Nov 2005 00:40:09 -0500


On Oct 18, 2005, at 7:27 AM, Stefan van der Walt wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 17, 2005 at 10:35:03PM -0400, Paul Kienzle wrote:
>> The main reason I can see for doing so is that it will make it easier
>> for John to move functions and packages in and out of the core without
>> losing the change history.
>>
>> This will make more work for the server administrator though.
>
> I would enjoy having all of Octave on one SVN server (mostly because I
> would much prefer SVN on both Octave and Octave Forge).
>
> Administering subversion is really not difficult or time-consuming, as
> I saw again while setting up the example server.
>
> Send Andy your public keys (ssh-keygen, without passwords) in order to
> receive access to the server.  Please try it out and tell us about
> anything that might hinder the adoption of this improved revision
> control system.

I'm fine with subversion so long as there are other major projects that 
have been using it for a while and are happy.

I notice that R is using it, and after a bit of apt magic to get 
subversion on my system I could download the latest revision.

- Paul