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[Peter Wemm]

On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 9:48 AM, Andre Oppermann <andre at freebsd.org> wrote:

> AFAIK there is a checkout-only SVN client available, as in cvsup, but I
> don't remember the name.

svnup looks good on paper but has a fair way to go, particularly
performance wise after the initial checkout and its tendency to
explode.  I still want to see that imported though.  However, it is an
end user tool, not a developer tool.

>> I don't find it unreasonable to ask developers to install the port.
>> And for users it seems all they need is something like portsnap for base.
>> Portsnap already distributes ports svn so it shouldn't be too hard to
>> adapt it for base. And the extra layer it adds is very convenient. Apart
>> from a bigger than usual update maybe, portsnap users never even noticed
>> it was switched from cvs to svn at some point.
>
>
> Installing SVN from ports is very painful because of the huge dependency
> chain it carries, with the largest being Python and Perl IIRC.

That was one of my main motivations.  A 2 year old machine builds this
in ~35 seconds with *no* footprint.   The dependency abomination in
ports tests my non-violent nature.  This is a major source of pain on
the freebsd.org cluster and after the stealth perl ABI changes without
a version bump.. well..

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