Re: CVS, replication, and triggers (oh my!)

[Mark J]

Arthur,

Apologies for touching on a sore spot.  I haven't lurked long enough
to know the general vibe of this newsgroup.  I absolutley understand
your point, and if it makes you feel better, we do hire from the
community when we need assistance. In fact,  I recently had the
pleasure of working with Ximbiot on a project.

I assumed that the folk gathered here were not just about GPL and CVS,
but more focused on quality software projects and configuration
management.

Regardless, if you were to remove any mention of replication from my
post, it boils down to the same thing - broken pipe error in loginfo,
and possible workarounds.

Well, I've been moving and reconfiguring repostiories for about 30
hours straight now, and I think I'll crash.  

Take care,

Mark

On Sun, 24 Dec 2006 05:19:49 +1100, "Arthur Barrett"
<address@hidden> wrote:

>Mark,
>
>> Since many companies are using replicated repositories, 
>
>Err no.  
>
>This is a contentious topic, but generally speaking replicated
>repositories are not required because CVS was designed to be used on
>networks that were available 20 years ago, and even slow networks today
>are considerably faster than them.  There has been quite a lot of
>discussion and examples on this list and the CVSNT list, search older
>posts for more info - there may even be something on the wiki now (I
>vagely remember something).  The topic comes up under "performance"
>and/or "replication" and/or "sync".
>
>If you really do need a "local cache" or "proxy" then there are plenty
>of open source solutions available, including CVSNT 2.5.04 (GPL, yes it
>runs on Unix) and things like cvsup, unison and rsync.  The CVS 1.12
>proxy may achieve a similar result but I'm not as familiar with that.
>
>If you are wanting to throw money around please spend it on the
>developers who actually volunteer their time to make CVS - your version
>control system.  Why do people keep coming to the open source list for
>support for a different and unrelated (commercial) product?
>
>Getting off my soap box now...
>
>Regards,
>
>
>Arthur
>