[Svnmerge] Re: gnome stuck on cvs2svn

[Giovanni Bajo]

Ben Collins-Sussman <sussman at red-bean.com> wrote:

> The gnome project was supposed to migrate to subversion a month ago,
> but have been stuck on a cvs2svn conversion problem:
>
> http://mail.gnome.org/archives/gnome-announce-list/2006-March/msg00025.html

Marginally, I'll quote this:

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The second spanner is that container, our CVS (and to-be Subversion)
server, is still running python2.2. Since I first started planning this
migration (back in Aug/Sep), the cvs2svn code has moved on a fair bit,
and includes some useful new features (e.g. storing the CVS version
number for each revision as a subversion property). Unfortunately, it
now requires python2.3, and I've been unsuccessful so far in getting a
newer version of python working on container for various reasons
(<cough>RHEL3</cough).
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I think it's a clear demonstration why client-side tools should try to be as
compatible as possible with Python versions. svnmerge.py runs with any Python
2.0+ for a reason. It could be *marginally* cleaned up if the requisite was
made higher, but to me it's really not worth the price to pay in compatibility.

Giovanni Bajo