Re: Proposal: Subversion Migration

[Adrian Robert]

On Oct 14, 2005, at 6:50 PM, Helge Hess wrote:

> On 14. Okt 2005, at 09:10 Uhr, MJ Ray wrote:
> > Integration and disk/memory consumption are real. You may have time
> > to upgrade and reconfigure your desktop every N minutes
>
> I honestly do not know what you are talking about. Even my NeXTstation 
> from 1994 has 512MB disk space, 24MB of RAM and is perfectly capable 
> of dealing with the Svn client.

Have you tried running it and are you satisfied with the performance?  
Also, if you are at 5Mb per tool, you're not going to have room for 
many tools on that machine.   Facetiousness aside, it's important to 
consider human factors costs when talking about disk space, not just 
the cost per GB down at the local Walmart (or whatever its European 
equivalent ;).  You have the machines you have, sometimes you can't 
just add a disk but have to swap it (e.g., laptops), which can cause 
major administrative overhead, sometimes it might be a work machine you 
have little control over, etc..  Also, it's easy to pooh pooh the 
resource cost for any given tool (what's 5Mb after all?), but it's more 
the principle of it -- if you never care about resources, they get 
consumed pretty quickly.  (Think of money here.. ;)

Regarding voting, maybe you could explain why you think it's a bad idea?