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On Friday 18 February 2005 13:07, Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Unfortunately, Subversion's WC (Working Copy) directory is at least
> the double of the code checkout. So, the "state tarball" as you call
> it would be as large as the checkout itself.

You mean that if my kdelibs CVS checkout now is 70 MB (including the=20
generated files with make -f Makefile.cvs and the CVS directories), now=20
the same checkout from svn will be around the double? And actually I=20
need to download several (1-1.5) GB to have the kde modules checked=20
out? Now those without kde-i18n, kdeextragear* and with qt-copy are=20
~800MB, that I obtained the same way (converted a checkout from an=20
anonymous mirror that I get from somebody and did cvs update during the=20
last years).=20
Getting again them directly with a checkout will be a pain. In the best=20
case I can download ~3-400MB a month from home, and even at the other=20
place I have only a 64-128kbps access. I cannot stay there several days=20
to wait for a checkout, but I could ask somebody to start the downloads=20
and I go there and get them, but those somebody will not use Linux,=20
this is why would be better to have tarballs that can be downloaded.
And of course usually getting a big file is faster than getting=20
thousands of small files.

> So there would be, effectively, no difference between checking out
> from Subversion, or downloading a tarball consisting of .svn
> directories only.

I'd ask for a tarball that contains the code and the svn directories=20
from an anonymous svn checkout  if the svn directories can be updated=20
to match my account. This way even the larger tarballs could be=20
downloaded with time.=20

I don't know how it is with other developers, but I don't think I'm the=20
only one who still doesn't have broadband internet access.

Andras

=2D-=20
Quanta Plus developer - http://quanta.sourceforge.net
K Desktop Environment - http://www.kde.org

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