[SM-Discuss] SVN as p4 replacement
Sergey A. Lipnevich
sergey at sourcemage.org
Mon Mar 20 16:21:31 EST 2006
Arwed von Merkatz wrote:
>
> Choice isn't the problem as long as _every_ combination of choices
> builds.
I have this in DEPENDS:
depends APR '--with-apr=/usr' &&
depends APU '--with-apr-util=/usr' &&
I would gladly accept a patch to make it easier for the user to make a
consistent choice every time this is processed. Extra "point" would be
awarded to make this patch only touch the DEPENDS file ;-).
> I have never been able to get a subversion install with
> apr/apr-util, always had to go for apr0/apr-util0. No idea if this works
>
All I can say here is that I rarely test the spell with apr0 because I
was focusing on Apache 2.1+ lately. I've been upgrading my servers to
new versions of Subversion in step with releases (more or less), and
never had a compilation problem. I'm biased of course, but my point is
that more failure scenarios are needed to understand what exactly is
breaking up.
> better now, but the subversion spell really breaks a lot - be that due to
> apr changes, swig changes or subversion changes.
>
Again, I am not aware of serious persistent breakage, and neither is
Bugzilla. There's three open bugs now (10721, 10427, 6674), and only one
of them is "unclear." 6674 is a sub-depends issue; 10427 is the
incomplete patch for db-4.4. So the only "difficult" problem is 10721,
that I'm going to look into.
> A regression test suite could certainly help here, we'd just need a way
> to connect those spells. That would maybe also help without a full set
>
Do you mean a regression test for the spell or for Subversion itself?
The former would be great, but how? I haven't seen any reports from
Prometheus in a long time, and that's the only regression testing
facility I know of. The latter doesn't really help because to be
regression tested, Subversion has to be compiled first, and this where
the problems start.
So, to summarize, please file bug reports and describe the Subversion
breakage you experienced :-)!
Sergey.
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