[SCC_Active_Members] Software Archive Problem Statements?

[Bob Fraley]

Hi,

Subversion is open source, developed from scratch by CVS experts.  A 
number of the open source groups are migrating from CVS to Subversion.

I don't know enough about the design of Subversion to know exactly 
how they handle media files.  But since complete files are  checked 
in and out, I suspect that replacing an existing file with a new 
version will store a complete copy of the new version.  I would hope 
that there are plug-ins that would allow optimizing specific file 
types when they are checked in.  But several people have said that 
they mostly expect that the archive files will not change once they 
are checked in.

Bob



At 11:14 AM 4/9/2007, Van Snyder wrote:
>On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 23:03 -0700, Eric Petrich wrote:
> > Al Kossow's recent e-mail requested that members hold off proposing
> > solutions until the museum staff can create a requirements document.
> > Or, as Grady Booch put it, before the problem is understood.
>
>It's good to understand a problem before implementing a solution, but
>it's also good not to conflate several problems that are only
>superficially related, with the result that any single solution is worse
>than several separate solutions.
>
>For source code for software, we understand the problems (I think) and
>there are several good solutions.
>
>I hadn't appreciated that Subversion is an open-source project.  I
>thought it was a commercial proprietary-format product.  I suggested CVS
>or SCCS because I know they're open source, widely used, and depend upon
>purely-character files.
>
>I doubt they (or Subversion) are useful for pictures or binary code, and
>I suspect that anything that's appropriate for pictures or binary code
>will be suboptimal for text -- at least text that's represented as such
>and not as images.
>
>--
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