[swarm-hackers] bye bye CVS?

[Scott Christley]

Hello All,

Now that Google SoC is over, maybe its time to consider moving away  
from CVS?
I converted my personal CVS repository, which is easily 10 years now  
(about 1GB), to SVN using the conversion tool and it worked just  
fine.  Did have an issue with some very old old tags, but these were  
on deleted files sitting in the Attic and easily handled.  I've been  
using SVN daily now for the past 3-4 months, and it works pretty  
nice.  I especially like how its easier and more transparent for doing  
branches and tagging.
True, true, SVN really isn't all that much different from CVS, but the  
few little things that SVN does, which have always been annoying or  
painful in CVS, sure is nice :-)
It looks like savannah.nongnu.org supports SVN along with  
documentation and scripts for converting from CVS, so we don't even  
have to worry about moving servers.
All of this should be part of the "grand plan" to get Swarm back into  
a somewhat regular release cycle.  There have been a bunch of  
development threads over the past few years, I really want to see us  
start rolling this work into releases.  I think this is important for  
the Google work, that is a great resource and we need to project to  
Google (presuming they are even looking) that their efforts really are  
helping Swarm.
One nice thing is that with virtual machines, plus efforts to get  
Swarm into the packaging systems of many Linux, the pain and overhead  
of generating binary releases should be much less.  It could even get  
to the point where we won't need to bother with binary releases except  
for the non-free systems like OSX and Windows.
Any thoughts?

Scott