[Python-Dev] PEP: Migrating the Python CVS to Subversion (original) (raw)

Fred L. Drake, Jr. fdrake at acm.org
Fri Jul 29 17:30:10 CEST 2005

On Friday 29 July 2005 09:17, Jim Fulton wrote:

  1. We were making extensive use of symbolic links to share packages among various Zope projects. This requires special care and was the main reason I wrote my own scrips.

    I don't expect that this would be an issue for Python.

I know of three symlinks in the Python repository, all from the distutils project. There's one for the package and one for each of the documents.

  1. I initially tried to conver our entire repository, including all branches. This would have taken days. I finally decided to just convert our trunk, which took several hours. The main time sink was in the load step of the conversion process.

This might be a possibility for Python as well, though we have a much less complex branching structure, so the conversion may not be so difficult.

-Fred

-- Fred L. Drake, Jr.

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