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On Tue, 5 Jun 2007, Tim Jenness wrote: > JAC have been using subversion for a while now and we're very keen to migrate > the non-Java[1] Starlink CVS repository to a subversion repository at the > JAC. After using subversion for a while I feel a weight has lifted from my > shoulders (really! - no more worrying about renaming files or moving > directories) > > There will be external webdav access (As well as svn+ssh for people with JAC > accounts). > > This will no doubt break the nightly build system which we may need to either > rejig to do a subversion checkout (in the short term) or migrate to other > hosts. Norman's nightly commit email will also need fixing. The starlink > developer web site will need to be tweaked as well. > >> From experience it will probalby take a couple of days for the transfer to > complete so it will be done over a weekend. > > What are people's opinion on this? > > [1] unless Mark wants us to Tim, I'm happy enough with CVS, so I'm not going to agitate for a change as far as starjava goes. But if it was going to make your lives easier I wouldn't necessarily be against it - I haven't reallly looked at subversion but I understand it's quite good. I'd be interested in Peter's opinion, maybe after he's had some experience with the non-java subversion. On a slightly related topic: I may at some point (possibly soon, possibly not) want to check in some non-starlink code to the starjava repository. Obviously, it hasn't been properly starlink code for a couple of years now, but this would/may be new applications which I probably ought to give package names in the org.astrogrid namespace. It would make things easier for me to have these in the same build system as STIL etc, so I'd rather have them in starjava than in an AstroGrid repository. Of course there's no technical barrier to this, and AG don't mind where I put the sources, but I don't know how JAC would feel about me using the repository in this way. Any comments? Mark -- Mark Taylor Astronomical Programmer Physics, Bristol University, UK [log in to unmask] +44-117-928-8776 http://www.star.bris.ac.uk/~mbt/